Bash scripting

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Author: Eddie Williams
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Subject: Bash scripting
Hmmm, im not sure what youre trying to do, but I use this reference
alot...

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/


On 29 Jul 2002, Bryce C wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how, in a bash script, I can move the contents of
> variable $2 to variable $1 and so on?  I'm writing a bash script to
> update some stuff but I'd like to be able to type
> script.sh noblah noit nothat
> but everything is defaulted yes.
> Currently., my script is something like
> case "$1" in
>     noblah)
>         echo Not doing blah.
>         $1="$2"
>     ;;
>     *)
>         echo Doing blah;
>     ;;
> esac
> case "$1" in
>     nothis)
>         echo Not doing this.
>         $1="$2"
>     ;;
>     *)
>         echo Doing this
>     ;;
> esac

>
> That sort of thing. Can anyone help? Perhaps a nice online reference?
> No books though, I don't have the money or time to buy one.
>
> Thanks,
>


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-Eddie