Hello,

I am very new to writing scripts and am just trying to learn the basics. What I have done is created the following script:

filename=${1:?"filename missing."}
howmany=$2


echo ${album_line:9}
echo ${album_line:0:8}
echo -e -n ${header:+"ALBUMS ARTIST\n"}
sort -nr $1 | head -${howmany:=10}

and what I am trying to do is make it if you use -h, it will show the header when ran and if you don't use -h it will run normally. Also, I am trying to make it so I can use two other switches to just list one or the other column. I know it is probaly a stupid question but I am just trying to get my feet wet.

Thanks for the help,

Jon

use getopt
reading ...
$ info getopt
... should get you started.

Thanks for the quick reply, it helped.