How to pass arguments to program in a for loop of a shell script

Question

I'm having a little trouble implementing a very simple shell script. I want to run a program with command line inputs 2-100 as one of the program arguments and direct the results to another file, ie

for (( c=2; c<101; c++))
do
   ./virtmem 100 $c fifo sort2 >> results/FIFOSORT.txt
done

But this doesn't quite work because it says fifo isn't a program. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

What is virtmem doing with those args? If it's trying to run "fifo" as another script, perhaps fifo needs "chmod +x" to make it exec'able?

Answer 2

Try to either do this

`./virtmem 100 $c fifo sort2 >> results/FIFOSORT.txt `

or this

./virtmem 100 $c "fifo" "sort2" >> results/FIFOSORT.txt .

I think it will solve your problem.