Linux

Hi all,

I wrote a shell script in which one of the if condition i tried to set few variables and exported them...and when i am out of if condition i wish to run one of my script which uses those variables exported.

But i found that when i am out of the if statement those variables were not set and were empty.

So please can any one help me where i am going wrong.....(below are the details)

pasting below the snippet of the script(setup)

#!/usr/bin/ksh
if [ "${1}" = "solaris" ]
then
(
LIBPATH=/usr/odbc/lib:/opt/$2/lib:/usr/odbc/drivers:$LIBPATH
export LIBPATH
ODBCINI=`pwd`/.odbc.ini
export ODBCINI
echo "ODBCINI="$ODBCINI "LIBPATH="$LIBPATH
)
fi
echo "ODBCINI="$ODBCINI

pasting console output

$sh setup solaris
ODBCINI=/export/home/testing/se185015/.odbc.ini LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/odbc/lib:/opt/odbc32v52/lib:
ODBCINI=

Try this ...Use curly braces {/} , not (/)

Oh thank you so much its working.......... Can you explain me why it worked with { } and not with ( )...

thanks in advance

( ) will always start a new shell...

From the man page of ksh:

Code:

    (list)

         Execute list in a separate environment. If two  adjacent
         open parentheses are needed for nesting, a space must be
         inserted to avoid arithmetic evaluation.



    {list}

         list is simply executed. Unlike the metacharacters ( and
         ),  {  and  }  are  reserved words and must occur at the
         beginning of a line or after a ; in order to  be  recog-
         nized.

Since () creates a seperate environment, then the environment is different from your current env that has the variable.

ok thanks i dint new about that.....well got to know now....