[X-Unix] Setting variables for hide script

[Eugene Lee]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:41:48PM +0100, Kirk McElhearn wrote:
: 
: To those fiddling with this script....
: 
: There is an error arising whenever there is only one argument in the script.
: Since the osascript command understands "$1" and "$2", would it be easier to
: set these two variables at the beginning of the script, before it has a
: chance to act on them in the Tell Finder bit, then use variable names? Call
: them, say, opt and app?

Of course.  A simplistic solution (I would write something more robust,
but that's just me) would look like this:

	if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
		opt=""
		app="$1"
	elif [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
		opt="$1"
		app="$2"
	else
		echo "Usage: `basename $0` [option] appname"
		exit 1
	fi


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Eugene Lee
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