Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear Diab,

the same problem, i need to mention that i am facing the same problem with all functions in the script.

Dear methyl,

Thanks for your advice

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Dears

let me know if you need me to attach the original script to help to solve this problem

Thanks,

Dears,

any updates?

are your file that contain the function executable or not.

meaning permission is r-x or rwx?

BR

Yes the script contain the function executable 755

Yes please do post the whole script. Please blot out anything confidential with X's. Please state how the script was created (which editor?).

Please make it clear which Operating System you are using ( uname -a ) and which shell you have ( echo ${SHELL} ).

Please show some sample data (blotting anything confidential with X's) and show exactly what you type when running the script and exactly what messages and/or output data you receive. Precision is everything in computing.

If you are typing a line of this length from the command line it will not work in many shells because the line is too long (I've tried it), but it can work from a shell script in a modern shell (I've tried it). It is very important to know whether the commands are typed from a command line or inside a shell script and what environment we have here.

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Sorry I'm not going to be much help here. No access to SunOS. Is this Solaris 10 aka SunOS 5.10 or something much older?

Also, can't process the "rar" file in your post.

Possible that the original problem is an awk/nawk issue - maybe an awk specialist can comment on the length of the awk command.

Previous replies about not ending lines with semi-colon ( characters still apply. This is unix shell not Oracle.