ksh [ HP True 64 v5.1 ] and HP-UX B.11.11i

krishna · #1 (**permalink**) 09-16-2005

Hi Friends,

We have migrated our Unix from HP True 64 v5.1 to HP-UX B.11.11i recently and copied all my shell scripts ( Korn shell ) to new HP-UX B.11.11i unix machine. I've encountered lot of errors during execution of the scripts for example:

cat x.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
if [ -f abc.txt ]
then
echo abc.txt file exists...
else
echo abc.txt file does not exists...
fi

===============
x.sh: test: argument expected
abc.txt file does not exists...

In my old machine there were no problems, pls advise with how can I overcome from this kind of problems.

Thanks
Krishna

krishna · #2 (**permalink**) 09-16-2005

Suppose if I copy ksh file from old machine into my $HOME/bin will it works and how is its behavior?

blowtorch · #3 (**permalink**) 09-16-2005

ksh should be fairly constant across operating systems. The code that you have posted worked fine in FreeBSD. And no, you cannot just take a binary from Tru64 and expect it to work on HP.

Perderabo · #4 (**permalink**) 12-19-2005

I tried that script on ab HP-UX 11i system and I cannot reproduce the error. It works fine for me.

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