Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,

I am trying to figure out why i am getting an error while executing the script...altought it seems like its work...but still get the test arguement error...any help would be appericiate...this script basically connects to any oracle db ( just have to pass db name to it) and then it will clean up all old trace file etc etc...

Here is the error that i get....

Code:

/oracle/script > /oracle/script/test_purge_tracefile.ksh CONDEV
/oracle/script/test_purge_tracefile.ksh[91]: test: argument expected

The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/CONDEV/112 is /oracle/CONDEV/112

Code:

---------- Post updated at 03:28 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:26 PM ----------

It could be happening anywhere you're feeding unquoted strings into a [ ] statement. If the variable is empty it won't expand to an empty string, it'll expand to nothing causing it to complain about missing arguments.

Lines which might be doing it are:

Code:

if [ $FILESIZE -ge 20971520 ]; then

or

Code:

if [ $DB_VERSION -ge 11 ]; then

The script in debug mode does not appear to show any error. What happens if you run your script as such -

Code:

sh  /oracle/script/test_purge_tracefile.ksh CONDEV

tyler_durden

Thanks for the update, how do i avoid it then ?

---------- Post updated at 03:52 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:50 PM ----------

no error which i run just sh and script name....

You quote them, with quotes, like every other quoted variable in your script. "${variable_in_quotes}"

You might also want to find out why these variables are ending up blank, since that's probably not what you intended.