06-21-2011
Value of variable not getting passed in child script
Hi,
I am facing a challenge in fixing an issue in my installation scripts.Here is a situation:
There are 3 files which are invoked at a below given order:
Installer.ksh----->Installer.xml(Ant script)------->common.ksh
I am outputting a message from common.ksh at a terminal, after that trying to read a variable. Problem is that value of a variable is not coming in common.ksh.
Here is my code used in common.ksh:
print "Do you want to continue (y/n) ? " | tee -a /dev/tty
read answer
if [[ "$answer" = "y" || "$answer" = "Y" ]];
I could not see $answer in my logs.
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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)