I am working on AIX 6.1 issuing #!/bin/sh at the beginning of the script.
I don't understand why $1 is not working as expected. I expect it to hold the value for the first argument coming from the command line consistently - and it is not.
At the beginning of the script starting I do this:
Code:
echo "Number of arguments entered: $# "
echo $1
chk_date
When I echo $1 here it shows the output when the script is run:
Code:
Number of arguments entered: 107/28/2011
But when I do the same thing within the function chk_date() it won’t display it:
Code:
chk_date()
{
if [ "$1" != $TODAYDT ]
then
echo "YOU ENTERED"
echo $1
echo "TODAY IS ---> $TODAYDT"
echo "YOU HAVE ENTERED A DATE THAT DOES NOT MATCH TODAY'S DATE"
echo "DO YOU WANT TO USE TODAY'S DATE INSTEAD? Y|y or N|n"
read ANSWER
Number of arguments entered: 1
07/28/2011
YOU ENTERED
TODAY IS ---> 07/28/2011
YOU HAVE ENTERED A DATE THAT DOES NOT MATCH TODAY'S DATE
DO YOU WANT TO USE TODAY'S DATE INSTEAD? Y|y or N|n
The first problem is that it is validating true as a non-match with the variable $TODAYDT which has the value of 07/28/2011 as shown in green.
See … below the YOU ENTERED in the output? It is blank – even though I’m doing the same echo command that displayed it as 07/28/2011 at the beginning of the script… I’m really stumped on this… please help. Thank you.
Last edited by radoulov; 07-28-2011 at 11:46 AM..
Reason: Code tags!
It has something definitely to do with the echo $1 being inside the function chk_date(). I modified the script so that it would not have the function chk_date() and it works as expected:
Code:
[doruatt01pu]/RRPS/devel/ora/mig: migmstr.sh_fc 07/28/11
Number of arguments entered: 1
06/28/2011
YOU ENTERED
06/28/2011
TODAY IS ---> 07/28/2011
YOU HAVE ENTERED A DATE THAT DOES NOT MATCH TODAY'S DATE
DO YOU WANT TO USE TODAY'S DATE INSTEAD? Y|y or N|n
So, I’d like to know why a custom function changes the functionality of the $1 when used within that function. Thanks!
Last edited by radoulov; 07-28-2011 at 12:05 PM..
Reason: Code tags.
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