Originally Posted by zubairom

Thanks Made in Germany and Carlos for your input... Now I understand what Carlos meant... Yes echoing the $line works ... That was confusing me as why the why loop goes into the awk subshell...you guys cleared that.

For this script I will use variables as suggested by Don as that is a simpler approach.

regarding the additional checks that you proposed </dev/null work fine but I run into some issues using -f option for su and the 'ticks'... With -f option for su it looks like I can't use -R for chmod(my original script did not have -R for chmod but now I added it) and I get

Code:

-R: 0403-010 A specified flag is not valid for this command.

With the 'ticks' looks like it can't resolve the variable(which is what i thought)

Code:

chmod: /saswork/sastemp/$sas_work_dir: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.