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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check parameter variable? Post 74606 by negixx on Friday 10th of June 2005 04:29:41 PM
Old 06-10-2005
How to check parameter variable?
Hello All,

I have a script that will email out if the email address is specified as parameter 1.

I am using ksh, and then tried the following :

email=$1

Following did not work, I am getting error
test -z $email
test ${email:=" ") -eq " "
test -n $email
test ${?email}

What I am trying to do is, if $1 has a value, then email the report to that email address...

i.e. getreport.ksh test@gmail.com - will generate report and then email out.
getreport.ksh - will just generate the report


Thanks!

Joseph
 

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SEE ALSO

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