hi, assuming I execute shell script like this
$ ./script -c "hello world" I want to save "hello world" string to variable COMMENT in shell script. code: #!/bin/sh parse_cmdline() { while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do case "$1" in -c) shift COMMENT="$1" ;; esac shift done } parse_cmdline $* echo $COMMENT exit 0 but that only write out "hello". I tried to change $* to $@, nothing changed. It is interesting, that if I dont put "while" loop into function parse_cmdline, and do echo $COMMENT, it writes "hello world". I WANT that function style. How to do it ? thank you _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"