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Passing on command line arguments to ocean script

wonyoung Kim

Hello,

I am running ocean simulations on my UNIX terminal using commands such as "ocean -nograph -restore myoceanscript.ocn". I was wondering if there's a way to include an argument in the command line and pass it on to the ocean script. For example, I could type "ocean -nograph -restore myoceanscript.ocn outputfile_name.out" on the command line to tell the ocean script what the output file name should be.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Wonyoung
  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Wonyoung,

    Unfortunately the argv() function won't work in this context, so the only way to do this is probably to create a wrapper script, something like:

    #!/bin/sh
    script=$1
    shift
    export REMAININGARGS="$@"
    ocean -nograph -restore $script

    Then you could run:

    oceanWrapper myScript.ocn testing 123

    Within the OCEAN script, you could use getShellEnvVar("REMAININGARGS") to find out what else was passed in.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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