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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting executing a ksh script from another ksh script Post 302081533 by vino on Wednesday 26th of July 2006 03:56:42 AM
Old 07-26-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by ammu
Hi

the code is too lengthy.
In short a.ksh is for running a datastage job.
so for executing the job the command i'll give is
./a.ksh dev(environment) jobname.
So now in a.ksh only i'm trying to call b.ksh .this is to ftp the file.for running this script the command should be ./b.ksh dev(environment).

So now i need to pass the dev to b.ksh

So how can i do this
Code:
#! / bin/ksh
# a.ksh
# your code.

# save argument 1 to be used later.
DEV_ENV=$1 

# rest of the code.

# invoke b.ksh
./b.ksh $DEV_ENV

Infact I dont think you need to save $1. You might as well invoke b.ksh as
Code:
./b.ksh $1

 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

let

let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME

       let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions

SYNOPSIS

   ksh
       let arg...

DESCRIPTION

   ksh
       Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        The value of the last expression is non-zero.

       1        The value of the last expression is zero.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                             let(1)
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