Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi falks,

I have the following program:

#!/bin/ksh
ed -s /home/ias/v9.0.3/j2ee/OC4J_RiGHTv_HPCD2/applications/Xbip/Xbip/WEB
-INF/config/application.properties <<EOF >/dev/null
1
d
.
d
.
a
application.filePath.core = /core-HPCD2/Html/
application.filePath.xbip = /xbip-HPCD2/Html/
.
w
q
EOF

As you can see,i'm doing editing changes in a file during a ksh running ,as user root.
In HP this program fails and exit with status 2.
In Sun it succeeds.

Is anyone have an idea why does it fail?

Thanks in advance,
Nir

Works fine for me on HP-UX 10 and under SuSE Linux 8.2

You'll get an exit status of 2 if the file doesn't already exist, or if you try to delete ("d") lines that don't exist - i.e. if the file is empty.

Cheers
ZB

Hi ZB,

You are right.
Eventually,my file was not valid.
I've created a new file with the same lines and the program has run successfully ,both on HP and Sun.

Thanks.
Nir