I am trying to make a shell script which is designed to be run like this:
script.sh -t application
Firstly, in my script I want to check to see
Here is a generalized simple command argument interface you can paste to the top of all your scripts.
#!/bin/bash
declare -A flags
declare -A booleans
args=()
while [ "$1" ];
do
arg=$1
if [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ]
then
shift
rev=$(echo "$arg" | rev)
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ] || [ "${rev:0:1}" == ":" ]
then
bool=$(echo ${arg:1} | sed s/://g)
booleans[$bool]=true
echo \"$bool\" is boolean
else
value=$1
flags[${arg:1}]=$value
shift
echo \"$arg\" is flag with value \"$value\"
fi
else
args+=("$arg")
shift
echo \"$arg\" is an arg
fi
done
echo -e "\n"
echo booleans: ${booleans[@]}
echo flags: ${flags[@]}
echo args: ${args[@]}
echo -e "\nBoolean types:\n\tPrecedes Flag(pf): ${booleans[pf]}\n\tFinal Arg(f): ${booleans[f]}\n\tColon Terminated(Ct): ${booleans[Ct]}\n\tNot Mentioned(nm): ${boolean[nm]}"
echo -e "\nFlag: myFlag => ${flags["myFlag"]}"
echo -e "\nArgs: one: ${args[0]}, two: ${args[1]}, three: ${args[2]}"
By running the command:
bashScript.sh firstArg -pf -myFlag "my flag value" secondArg -Ct: thirdArg -f
The output will be this:
"firstArg" is an arg
"pf" is boolean
"-myFlag" is flag with value "my flag value"
"secondArg" is an arg
"Ct" is boolean
"thirdArg" is an arg
"f" is boolean
booleans: true true true
flags: my flag value
args: firstArg secondArg thirdArg
Boolean types:
Precedes Flag(pf): true
Final Arg(f): true
Colon Terminated(Ct): true
Not Mentioned(nm):
Flag: myFlag => my flag value
Args: one => firstArg, two => secondArg, three => thirdArg
Basically, the arguments are divided up into flags booleans and generic arguments. By doing it this way a user can put the flags and booleans anywhere as long as he/she keeps the generic arguments (if there are any) in the specified order.
Allowing me and now you to never deal with bash argument parsing again!
You can view an updated script here
This has been enormously useful over the last year. It can now simulate scope by prefixing the variables with a scope parameter.
Just call the script like
replace() (
source $FUTIL_REL_DIR/commandParser.sh -scope ${FUNCNAME[0]} "$@"
echo ${replaceFlags[f]}
echo ${replaceBooleans[b]}
)
Doesn't look like I implemented argument scope, not sure why I guess I haven't needed it yet.