1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi The following command gives me error :The specified substitution is not valid for this command export DB_ID=${DB_${MART}_USER} What is the correct syntax for the above ? (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, We are in the process of Migrating from AIX 4 to Solaris 10 and getting a Few Errors. I have been programming in shell but could never establish muself as an expert, hence please need you help. I am Getting Bad Substitution error in my script, I have isolated the issue and its... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i created a shell script having the following content: #! /usr/bin/ksh FROM="myemail@domain.com" MAILTO="someemail@domain" SUBJECT="TEST" BODY="/export/home/adshocker/body.txt" ATTACH="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog" echo $ATTACH ATTACH_NAME="${ATTACH##*/}" echo $ATTACH_NAME... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, In bash I can use the following: TMP=12345 MID=${TMP:1:1} the expected result is: 2 but when using KSH I'm getting a ''bad substitution" error. What is the correct syntaxin ksh? Thanks (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I'm building a new shell script but i'm facing a problem with one line which is giving "bad substitution" error. Please assist script lines: #!/bin/sh printf "%s: " "Occurrence DATE (YYYYMMDD)"; read DATE shortdate=${DATE#??} o/p: ./test1: bad substitution This command is... (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi guys. Good day, morning, afternoon or night, depending on where you live. I have a script shell in which I am looping on files (absolute path) see code section above. I always have an error: bad substitution. :wall: Is it because my variable file is the index of the loop and not a normal... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have no idea what this line in a script I inherited suppose to do? Can you help please? This is the line in the script echo "\n this is a test." this is the output Output \n this is a test: bad substitution What does this line suppose t odo > Any why am I getting this error... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I have a code like in a script echo 'export '${colname}'='"'"`db2 -x "SELECT TRIM(${colname}) FROM ${DB_SCHEMA_NAME}.ETL_ALERT_CONFIG"'`"'" >> ${CM_CONFIG_FILE} After execution of the script its throwing me error at this code like ... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have script data.sh which has following error. Script Name : data.sh #!/bin/sh infile=$1 len=${#infile} echo $len texfile=${infile:0:$len-4} echo $texfile run command ./data.sh acb.xml I get following error message: (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I'm using ksh. And i'm trying to get the substring like below. but giving the following error #!/bin/ksh foo=teststring bar=${foo:0:5} echo $bar And the error is ./sbstr_test.sh: bar=${foo:0:5}: bad substitution what is wrong in this script. Please correct me ... (3 Replies)