Specify command line arguments like name=value pairs for shell script

Question

Is it possible to pass command line arguments to shell script as name value pairs, something like

myscript action=build module=core

and th

Answer 1

This worked for me:

for ARGUMENT in "$@"
do

    KEY=$(echo $ARGUMENT | cut -f1 -d=)
    VALUE=$(echo $ARGUMENT | cut -f2 -d=)   

    case "$KEY" in
            STEPS)              STEPS=${VALUE} ;;
            REPOSITORY_NAME)    REPOSITORY_NAME=${VALUE} ;;     
            *)   
    esac    


done

echo "STEPS = $STEPS"
echo "REPOSITORY_NAME = $REPOSITORY_NAME"

Usage

bash my_scripts.sh  STEPS="ABC" REPOSITORY_NAME="stackexchange"

Console result :

STEPS = ABC
REPOSITORY_NAME = stackexchange

STEPS and REPOSITORY_NAME are ready to use in the script.

It does not matter what order the arguments are in.

HTH