To read user input you can try the cmd module for easily creating a mini-command line interpreter (with help texts and autocompletion) and raw_input (input for Python 3+) for reading a line of text from the user. Command line inputs are in sys.argv. Try this in your script: There are two modules for parsing command line options: (deprecated since Python 2.7, use argparse instead) and getopt. If … Read more
The reason this occurs is because bash actually expands the asterisk to every matching file, producing a very long command line. Try this: Warning: this is a recursive search and will find (and delete) files in subdirectories as well. Tack on -f to the rm command only if you are sure you don’t want confirmation. You can do … Read more
You are reinventing the wheel. Normal PowerShell scripts have parameters starting with -, like script.ps1 -server http://devserver Then you handle them in param section in the beginning of the file. You can also assign default values to your params, read them from console if not available or stop script execution: Inside the script you can simply since all parameters … Read more
argv and argc are how command line arguments are passed to main() in C and C++. argc will be the number of strings pointed to by argv. This will (in practice) be 1 plus the number of arguments, as virtually all implementations will prepend the name of the program to the array. The variables are … Read more