13.2.4.5 Assignment Options

You can set any radtest variable from the command line. There are two ways of doing so.

First, you can use variable assignment option `--assign' (or `-a'). Its syntax is:

--assign variable=text -a variable=text

For example:

radtest -a foobar=5

Another way is useful when you load a radtest program by `--file' or `-f'. This second way consists in including a variable assignment in the form

variable=text

in the command line after the script name. For example:

radtest -f myprog.rad foo=5 addr=127.0.0.1

This method is especially useful for executable scripts that are run using #! shell magic. Consider a simple script:

#! /usr/local/bin/radtest -f print $addr

The value of addr can be given to the script from the command line as in the example below:

myprog.rad addr=127.0.0.1