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Asked: 2026-06-03T19:41:27+00:00

Example: check_prog hostname.com /bin/check_awesome -c 10 -w 13 check_remote -H $HOSTNAME -C "$ARGS" #To

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Example:

check_prog hostname.com /bin/check_awesome -c 10 -w 13

check_remote -H $HOSTNAME -C "$ARGS"
#To be expanded as
check_remote -H hostname.com -C "/bin/check_awesome -c 10 -w 13"

I hope the above makes sense. The arguments will change as I will be using this for about 20+ commands. Its a odd method of wrapping a program, but it’s to work around a few issues with a few systems we are using here (gotta love code from the 70s).

The above could be written in Perl or Python, but Bash would be the preferred method.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use shift

    shift is a shell builtin that operates on the positional parameters. Each time you invoke shift, it “shifts” all the positional parameters down by one. $2 becomes $1, $3 becomes $2, $4 becomes $3, and so on

    example:

    $ function foo() { echo $@; shift; echo $@; } 
$ foo 1 2 3
1 2 3
2 3
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