Ethan, I had a similar problem when using the getopts
command when using it in conjuction with nohup and the
&. I found by throwing ksh in the syntax everthing
worked. i.e. nohup ksh setup.ksh -a parameters &
This may or may not work for you but it's worth a try.
Scott
--- "Post, Ethan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is I am using "getopt" to process the
> switches...
>
> while getopts :pg: option
> do
> case $option in
> p) OPTION_p=Y ;;
> g) GID=$OPTARG ;;
> \?) print $OPTARG is not a valid argument. ;
> exit 0 ;;
> esac
> done
>
> shift $(expr $OPTIND - 1)
>
> After the shift, the $1 arg should be the ORACLE_SID
> passed in.
>
> When called directly everything works fine...
>
> exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST
>
> echo $GID returns
>
> dba apps
>
> When called from another script echo $GID returns
>
> "dba
>
> You can see it thinks the double quote is part of
> the argument for -g, is
> also does not thing apps is part of it. The reason
> is how it is treating
> the " double quotes. When called directly it sees
> them as surrounding the
> dba and apps words and all of it is part of the -g
> argment. When called
> from a script dynaically it treats the double quotes
> as part of the argment.
> I think I will paly around with single ticks to see
> if that works. I think
> there is a command that will basically expand the
> command once before
> running it, and I think that will work, but I can't
> recall it at the moment.
> I will keep tinkering.
>
> Thanks,
> Ethan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:15 AM
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>
>
> Ethan --
>
> As I understand it, your skip isn't working if there
> are multiple parameters
> passed in, so that when you get your parameters and
> do your skip, you are
> skipping one "word" and then the next parameter
> fails. If that is the case,
> what you may want to do is parse out the
> multi-parameter string with awk -F"
> {'print $2'}. Then count the words separately and
> skip those.
>
> HTH. BTW, I'm tied up with AppsDBA stuff and am not
> monitoring the List as
> I should. Feel free to email me directly if I can
> provide addition
> assistance.
>
> Bambi.
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