Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have a shell script and inside that shell script it calls a local .env file to set the environment for the shell script ,but the thing is that i got a error while running the script like

Code:

./myscript.sh it gives DB_NAME=dvcl021: is not an identifier

that DB_Name is accessed from my .env file
where DB_Name is my db name is my server and i has some many identifier so i need to redo it all ,so guys any idea abt how to set a identifier

What does the .env file look like, and what does the script look like?
Can you post them both.

Have you "source" the script with the variables? Something like?

Code:

. ./env_file

My .env file have like this

Code:

export DB_NAME=dvcl021
export USER_ID=my id
export PASSWORD=mypass
export DB_SERVER=myserve

and my script have these first few lines where it fetches the .env file

Code:

#!/usr/bin/sh
# myscript.sh
. $HOME/apps.env

and my apps.env is in the home folder only

Perhaps your (Bourne) shell don't support the export syntax like that, export the variables as:

Code:

DB_NAME=dvcl021
export DB_NAME

PASSWORD=mypass
export PASSWORD
.
.

It works and nice information
actually it's supported in HP-UX but not in Solaris
i don't why is this still the same bash i thought

As mentioned, the syntax is not support by your Bourne shell.
Try to change the shebangs in your scripts, something like (check where ksh is installed):

Code:

#!/bin/ksh