[ale] How to pass vars to lots of shell scripts?

chip chip.gwyn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 12:42:20 EDT 2013


Could this be done by setting an environment variable then test for the
value in your script and branch to do whatever.

--chip


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:01 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have a master script that calls a couple hundred other scripts. Each of
> the "other" scripts can also be called in their own.
>
> What I'm thinking about is having a variable like "test" or "fix" be set,
> so that if the "other" scripts run they will get a parameter without me
> having to put a getopts stanza in each script.
>
> So maybe:
>
> . ./my_vars
> if [ $TEST ]
> then
> ...
>
> or
>
> if [ -f ./TEST ]
> then
> ...
>
> Thoughts on the best way to do this? I'm not saying my ideas are the only
> way, just what comes to mind.
>
> Leam
>
>
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