Hi there,

I am trying to write a script (lets call it "script 1") which askes the user for information which is then set as a variable within script 1. Further on within this script, I would like to call another script (script 2) and pass the variables from script 1 to script 2.

Having just read around the board, I have learnt that it is not possible to pass variables directly between scripts, however I understand that it may be possible "dump" the variables from script 1 into a file and then get script 2 to read them.

Question is (if you have not guessed already!!) is how??

Many thanks in advance.

TOM

P.S. This is not homework or school related in any way!!!!! I am simply a novice

There are ways to pass variables to a new script from you existing script. When you start a script you can send variables in the following manner : filename variable variable variable
Unix sees the variable as $1 $2 $3 ....

Your second script would then be able to use the variable by thier number or you can assign them a name within the script.

Example.
Script one:
echo $1
{fullpathname}/scripttwo $2 $3

Script Two:
echo "this is the second script"
echo $1
echo $2

If the user entered scriptone this is fun
the computer would respond
this
this is the second script
is
fun

As you can see you send the second and third variable to scripttwo. Script two sees this as the first and second variable sent to it for processing.

Hope this helps

Excellent!!!

Thank you for your prompt answer!!!