Re: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Post, Ethan" wrote: > > AH HA! > > just remembered it, eval > > Let's see if this works! > Ethan, It's a bit of fudging, but what you could also do is use another separator than a space (eg : as in dba:apps) and then use cut or awk to slice the argument. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Or

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread James Morle
ehalf Of > Post, Ethan > Sent: 06 March 2002 19:23 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Korn Shell Q > > > No that did not work, thanks. I remember the command I am > more specifically looking for, it is a command that says to > do expansion tw

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Post, Ethan
Thanks to all that tried to help, that fixed it. Surrounded the call from script A to script B with eval and it expands the line the way I needed it. eval "exfail.sh $EXFAIL_OPTIONS $SID" Thanks, Ethan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients o

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Post, Ethan
AH HA! just remembered it, eval Let's see if this works! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No that did not work, thanks. I remember the command I am more specifically looking for, it is a command that says to do expan

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Post, Ethan
No that did not work, thanks. I remember the command I am more specifically looking for, it is a command that says to do expansion twice on a line, anyone remember what this is? basically if you have a variable that looks as follows echo $FOO -g "dba apps" the double quotes will get exanded a

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Scott
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" <[EMAI

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Post, Ethan
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

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Bellows, Bambi
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 str

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-06 Thread Alex
post your script. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Post, Ethan wrote: > Forgot something the call from inside the check_all_exfail.sh script looks > like this... > > exfail.sh $EXFAIL_OPTIONS $ORACLE_SID > > -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:23 PM > To: Multiple recipients of li

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-05 Thread Post, Ethan
Forgot something the call from inside the check_all_exfail.sh script looks like this... exfail.sh $EXFAIL_OPTIONS $ORACLE_SID -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have a shell script called exfail.sh which checks for poten