Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i am facing this problem, please help me in my korn script

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export $job_ids


echo "#Message creation" >message-typing.typ
chmod 777 message-typing.typ
echo "orderParser:1:999:210:T" >>message-typing.typ
echo "*REQUEST=FLOWTHRU;JOBID=${job_ids};OLD_DD=20050629000000;%" >>message-typing.typ


cat message-typing.typ
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Now the job_ids is a variable consisting of job id, and if u see i have exported this variable too.
However, the message-typing.typ file when i see through the debugging mode consists of job id value, but once the script has terminated this job_id value dissappears, if i run on my unix prompt like
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prompt> cat message-typing.typ
#Message creation
orderParser:1:999:210:T
*REQUEST=FLOWTHRU;JOBID=;OLD_DD=20050629000000;%
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So any help please
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You have to source the korn shell script. One way is to do this with a leading dot

Code:

.  /path/to/kornshellscript.sh

that is not needed, the error is basically on job id concentration

I do not understand the problem: you want an environment variable to exist in the parent process when it is declared in the script? Yes or no?

all i want is that this value of variable shud be preserved when im going from one script to the other

Well that's not gonna happen.

Your first post is just a jumble of lines. I can't tell if that was supposed to be a script or not. But I did notice this line:
export $job_ids

I suspect that you might be attempting to export the variable named job_ids. If so, you need:
export job_ibs

have tried this method too, with no luck
$job_ids or job_ids :: both way same result