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Old 06-23-2009
Different behaviour when running script as source file

Hi all,

OS: Solaris 10

I've written a script to scan the oratab file and give me a list of Oracle SIDs to choose from, and obviously in order to set the ORACLE_SID environment variable from within a script for the current shell, the script must be run as a source file.

When I run it as a normal file, i.e. not a source file, it works fine:
Code:
$ ./orasid
Choose Oracle SID:
1 SIUAT
2 RMAN
SID: 1 <-- Entered 1 here 
no of array elements: 2
ORACLE_SID set to: SIUAT

..although the env var is not actually set, as expected

but when I run it as a source file I get this:
Code:
$ . ./orasid
Choose Oracle SID:
1 SIUAT
2 RMAN
SID: 1
no of array elements: 0
Enter 1 to 0, SID not set

The problem seems to be the ${#ORACLE_SID[@]} construct to establish the total number of array elements. But why does this work as a regular shell script and not as a source file? Is there an alternative which works with both?

Thanks in advance, and here's the script:

Code:
#
# orasid - scan oratab for Oracle DBs and set SID
#
# usage: . orasid
#
#####################################
#
# Determine how to suppress newline with echo command.
#
N=
C=
if echo "\c" | grep c >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    N='-n'
else
    C='\c'
fi

ORATAB=/var/opt/oracle/oratab
#
# Loop through ORATAB
#
i=0
echo Choose Oracle SID:

cat $ORATAB | while read LINE
do

  case $LINE in
    
\#*)                ;;        #comment-line in oratab

*)
      (( i=i+1 ))
      poss_sid=`echo $LINE | awk -F: '{print $1}' -`
      if [ ! "$poss_sid" = '*' ] ; then  # ignores NULL SID
          ORACLE_SID[i]=$poss_sid
          echo $i ${ORACLE_SID[i]}
      fi
    ;;
  esac

done

echo $N "SID: $C"
read usrsid
echo no of array elements: ${#ORACLE_SID[@]}

if [ ${usrsid} -gt ${#ORACLE_SID[@]} ]; then
  echo Enter 1 to ${#ORACLE_SID[@]}, SID not set
else
  ORACLE_SID=${ORACLE_SID[usrsid]}
  export ORACLE_SID
  echo ORACLE_SID set to: ${ORACLE_SID[usrsid]}
fi


Last edited by longjon; 06-24-2009 at 07:23 AM.. Reason: add code tags
 

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