Passing arguments on command line or through application

[siswjh]

I have written a perl script that concatenates files together. Pass arguements to the script on the command line. This is the way it goes:

$inputdir = <STDIN>;

my question is can you have perl to do this instead:

$inputdir = $1

I know in bourne and korn you can. The reason why I ask is because we use appworx; It's a schduler that you can set prompts in, which will let you enter data like from the command line. It (appworx) will work if you have a script that will take values from $1....$9 and set these to variables. If I use <STDIN> it's not happening. I know this does really seem to be a perl problem but if there is a way to get standard input other than using <STDIN> it would be a quick easy fix for me.

Thanks
Jesse

 

[tonykent]

I'm not wholly sure I understand what you are asking. I'm reading it to mean that what you want to do is run a script while passing it variables from the command line e.g.

myscript.pl variable1 variable2 etc

If that's what you want to do, then yes you can do it, as follows:

#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl
my $firstvar = $ARGV[0]; #variable1 above
my $secondvar = $ARGV[1]; #variable2 above
etc

 

[siswjh]

Hey Tony that worked great!

Thanks
Jesse