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Operating Systems SCO Parameter passing to dot shell script Post 302473006 by atish0 on Thursday 18th of November 2010 05:27:48 PM
Old 11-18-2010
without the dot command the vaules of environemnt are not changed. the script creates a sub shell and that is not available back to the parent shell.

I have tried the way you are mentioning.

---------- Post updated at 05:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:44 PM ----------

Does not Work

. mytest hp4345 Command line

here is the code for mytest

#!/bin/sh
DFPRINTER=$1;export DFPRINTER;

after executing the above the enviornment variable is still same with old value.

this works
. mytest

code#!/bin/sh
DFPRINTER=hp4341;export DFPRINTER;

after executing the above the environment variable DFPRINTER value changes to hp4345


and I want to parametrize the hp4345 part so that I can pass on any desired value

---------- Post updated at 05:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:10 PM ----------

. ./mytest parameter

the parameter is no being passed in to the script
 

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script

script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME

       script - make record of a terminal session

SYNOPSIS

       script [-a] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  utility  makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
       record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.

       The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
       when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -a    Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.

NOTES

       script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.

ATTRIBUTES

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

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

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       script  can  pose  a  security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
       privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Jan 2004 							 script(1)
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