Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/10/07 02:42

Henk Oegema wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote:
> Tnx Aho for answering. :)
>> Henk Oegema wrote:
>>
>>
>> You would need to use
>>
>> export day=`php /path/to/yout/file/uptime.php`
>>
>> if you use it this way, you need to make the script to take arguments, so
>> that
>> you can get the day, hour and minute alone. Don't forget to echo about
>> the value.
> Can you please be a little bit more specific. It's not quit clear to me.
> Why (and how) must the script take arguments?
> The values of the 3 variables are already known to the script.
> I only need to pass them to the operating system.
>> Otherwise you can use a shell script with awk that can read out the values
>> and then set each variable, but then you could skip using php, as you get
>> the uptime from uptime command directly.
> You right, this is also a possibility.
>>
> Rgds
> Henk
>

But what's the operating system going to do with them?

The operating system doesn't take parameters. Rather, you run a program
(even if it is the shell) which does something with parameters.

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