simple answers
mthanks for all the help, especially yours, oliver. what you've suggested
was just what i need.
my apologies to those not content with my subject and the awkward
question, however, they were both answered.
andrej
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> andrej hocevar wrote:
> >hello
> >i'm just begining to write very simple scripts and came along these two
> >problems.
> >i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see
> >it as usual on screen?
>
> some_command | tee filename
>
> You can also use script to capture an entire session.
>
> >ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or an output to a script
> >that's just testing it, eg. a file has two arguments, now i want to pass
> >it to a script that takes the first one and echoes it on screen?
>
> In the script, the command line parameters are $1, $2, etc. The output
> of a command can be put into a command line by using backquotes or $():
>
> myscript `mycommand_that_outputs_two_words`
>
> Then the script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # myscript -- echoes the first argument
> if [ -z "$1" ]
> then
> echo No arguments supplied"
> exit 1
> else
> echo $1
> fi
>
>
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