Hi, I have a shell script in which I'm hardcoding all the directory paths and using them in the script. Ex: SourceDir=/opt/adw/source FinalDir=/opt/adw/target DataDir=..... like this. Instead of hardcoding these directory paths, I want to send them as input parameters. Somebody suggested me to use getopts() function to parse for the input parameters. I don't have much idea on this. Please suggest a way to get the dir paths as parameters and how to use getopts() function to parse the input parameters. Thanks, Anil

Hi, You can use question and answer type: echo "Enter the source directory:" read SourceDir echo "Enter the final directory:" read FinalDir OR By using arguments SourceDir=$1 FinalDir=$2 and so on... When you run this script, put all the directory as a argument, like this: myscript /opt/adw/source /opt/adw/target so the first argument is $1 and second argument is $2 and so on ...

Here's a getopts example with no error checking .... #!/bin/ksh # execute as such # script_name -s /optadw/source -d /opt/adw/target while getopts s:d: option do case $option in s) sourcedir=$OPTARG ;; d) finaldir=$OPTARG ;; esac done echo $sourcedir echo $finaldir