[GLLUG] trying to write a script And how to restart pure-ftpd

[Melson, Paul]

I don't know about pure-ftpd (though `kill -HUP` might work), but
accessing argv[] in a shell script is pretty easy.  Each argument
becomes a shell environment variable in the format $[argv number].

> ./mywebscript.sh 192.168.2.1 80

In the above example, the value of $0 is "./mywebscript.sh", the value
of $1 is "192.168.2.1", and the value of $2 is "80".

Here's an example of how to use them in the script:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $1x = x ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <filename>"
  exit 1
fi
if [ -e $1 ]; then echo "Parsing: ${1}"
  else echo "File $1 does not exist."
  exit 2
fi

This checks to see if the user entered an argument, then it checks to
see if a file with a name matching the argument exists.

Clear as mud?

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
How do I get command line arguments in a script?

e.g. myscript blah

And how do I restart the Pure-ftpd server?