ISSUE: I need to place a users cmd-line argument ( in this case a directory path ) into an associative array using declare -a DIR. The directory path will be stored in the array for later use in the script. However, at the moment that when the proper option & arg is provided by the user nothig is stored in the DIR array. The script is executed as such ./selectDir -d <dir_path> [file1] [file2]
DESIRED OUTPUT: I want the user's selected directory choice to be stored in the array "DIR". I would then like to be able to print the contents of the array once i've stored them so that I can verfiy the storage.
CURRENT CODE:
!/bin/bash -x
#
# Description:
# Usage:
#
# Issue: current problem seems to be with the execution of the scipt
# --syntax ./parseargs -d [$path] [file1] [file2] ... but this is keeps snagging on error
#
totalArgs="$#"
function usageErr()
{
echo 'usage: baseline.sh [ -d path ] file1 [file2]'
echo 'creates or compares a baseline from path '
echo 'default for path is /'
exit 2
} >&2 #rename the error output file
function parseArgs ()
{
# need to figure out how to trigger the conditional
while getopts "c:" MYOPT
do
case "${MYOPT}" in
d) # provide a custom directory
selectPath=YES
DIR+=( "$OPTARG" )
;;
*) # any other option provided will result in error
usageErr
;;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))
#no arguments? too many?
(( $# == 0 || $# > 2 )) && usageErr
(( ${#DIR[*]} == 0 )) && DIR=( "/" )
}
declare -a DIR
parseArgs # see about passing the cmd args at this point
echo "DIR: ${DIR[*]}"
echo "TEST: $test"
echo "PATH: $selectPath"
