command line arg

[robinsonvpanicker]

in a shell script if i have a string eg: "how are you" how do i pass it to the c program command line arguments such as argv[0]="how are you"....hhow to pass this string and recieve it in one piece in c prog....................plz reply quick

[Franklin52]

in a shell script if i have a string eg: "how are you" how do i pass it to the c program command line arguments such as argv[0]="how are you"....hhow to pass this string and recieve it in one piece in c prog....................plz reply quick

One of the many results with a quick search with Google:

The GNU C Programming Tutorial

Regards

[Cabhan]

C's argv[] array is its commandline arguments. So in a script, I would do:

#!/bin/bash

arg=another argument

./my_program arg1 arg2 arg3 "$arg"

And the argv[] array for my_program will be:

argv[0] = ./my_program
argv[1] = arg1
argv[2] = arg2
argv[3] = arg3
argv[4] = another argument