Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a script and I'm passing in a parmeter $1, and I only what to pass this $1 parmeter into another script.

Please see below for details for help :

Code:

virtual_gateway="$1"
YYYYMMDD="`date +%Y%m%d`"

        STARTUP_LOG="/$virtual_gateway/FIXGW/var/log/${virtual_gateway}_query_logwatcher.startup.${YYYYMMDD}.log"
        echo Attempting to start \"$1 Logwatcher\" at `date` >> $STARTUP_LOG
        ./shared/version >> $STARTUP_LOG 2>&1
        nohup ./shared/runManagedLogwatcher_pid ${virtual_gateway}_query >> $STARTUP_LOG 2>&1 &
 
But when I run this 1st script, which call's runManagedLogwatcher_pid, it passes $1_query.

Please could someone help so it only uses $1 parmeter.

regards

venhart

You will need to remove the quotes around the $1 when assigning its value to another variable.

virtual_gateway=$1 not "$1"

Once I removed the quotes around the $1, how can I assign it to another variable so the script that I call - runManagedLogwatcher_pid only uses $1, instead of ${virtual_gateway}_query.

regards,

venhart

I am not quite following you there. If you pass $1 to the first script and then call a second script passing it the $1 value then the 2nd script will refer to the $1 value as $1.

I invoke first script passing it "1234"

myshell.sh 1234

in myshell.sh I have these two lines

passvar=$1

myshell2.sh ${passvar}

Then in myshell2.sh I have the following line

passvar=$1

so if you echo $passvar in myshell2.sh it should display 1234.

Is that what you are looking for?

Otherwise sign it to a variable and export that variable so the other script can use it.

For example

virtual_gateway=$1
PASSVAR=$1
export PASSVAR

this should allow you to use PASSVAR as $1 in all subsequent shells.

Hi,

in my first script I have the following :

virtual_gateway=$1
PASSVAR=$2
export PASSVAR
YYYYMMDD="`date +%Y%m%d`"


STARTUP_LOG="/$virtual_gateway/FIXGW/var/log/${virtual_gateway}_${PASSVAR}_logwatcher.startup.${YYYYMMDD}.log"
echo Attempting to start \"$1 Logwatcher\" at `date` >> $STARTUP_LOG
./shared/version >> $STARTUP_LOG 2>&1
nohup ./shared/runManagedLogwatcher_pid ${virtual_gateway} >> $STARTUP_LOG 2>&1 &

and in my second script I have :

config="managed/data/config/ttalert.xml"
name="${APPLICATION}_$PASSVAR_logwatcher"

echo "running Reuters Targeted Messaging $APPLICATION Logwatcher..."

cd $TT_HOME/bin
CMD="./runTTAlert -config $config -mhost $MGMT_SERVER -mport 9876 -mcache /$1/FIXGW/var/mcache-$name -name $name"

echo EXECUTING $CMD

and when I check my logs, it still errors as the command in the second script looks like :

CMD=./runManagedLogwatcher_pid -config managed/data/config/ttalert.xml -mhost 10.128.13.9 -mport 9876 -mcache /NMHFIXGateway01/F
IXGW/var/mcache-NMHFIXGateway01_ -name NMHFIXGateway01_

The call command I'm using is scriptname NMHFIXGateway01 query

I would need to see within the CMD prompt : NMHFIXGateway01_query

The call command should be NMHFIXGateway01_query
instead of
The call command I'm using is scriptname NMHFIXGateway01 query
this command would use NMHFIXGateway as $1 and query and $2

or
in the second script where the $PASSVAR is change to ${PASSVAR}_query

I would need to see within the CMD prompt : NMHFIXGateway01_query

or in first script

PASSVAR=$1"_"$2