03-27-2008
Setting up variables
Hi all,
I have a shell script that sets up the environment for an application running on UNIX - ksh. This script is run using:
. ./script_name XX
where XX is a parameter. I want to run it from another shell script but when I do it I don't get the envornment variables set up and the prompt doesn't change to what it changes when I run it manually. Can you please tell me what am I doing wrong?
#!/bin/ksh
cd /applications/scripts
. ./script_name XX
I know that the script is running coz in the middle of the execution I'm asked for a second parameter that is required for the script_name script.
Thanks in advance!
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times
times(1) User Commands times(1)
NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)
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