Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have a unix shell script which generates a flat file after connecting to Teradata servers to fetch tables and views and also picks up modified unix scripts from the specified paths.
Later on the script calls a perl script to assign a value based on the type of object in the flat file which is being used in another table this data is loaded.

My issue is that the file has all the filenames, tablenames etc before the perl script is called.. once the perl script is called the flat file becomes zero..

Kindly help me figure out what could possibly be a reason for this as it behaves this way on specific servers.

Thanks.

The script has to open the file for write, then close it without writing.

If you post the code (parts dealing with file i/o) someone can help you.

This is the part of the shell script which calls the perl script,

Code:

perl ../get_unix_objs.pl $inFile $servername $outFile 2>$outFile.err

An extract from the perl script(get_unix_objs.pl) is given below on how it checks for the type of file and assigns a number for table load purpose,

Code:

if ( $file_name =~ /\.k{0,1}sh$/io )
 {
  $obj_type_id = 22;
 }
 elsif ( $file_name =~ /\.mload\.ctl$/io )
 {
  $obj_type_id = 25;
 }
 elsif ( $file_name =~ /\.bteq\.ctl$/io )
 {
  $obj_type_id = 26;
 }
 elsif ( $file_name =~ /\.tpump\.ctl$/io )
 {
  $obj_type_id = 27;

The infile has all the script names but the outfile has file size zero