problem in getting the path of environment variable set in bashrc in my shell script


 
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Old 05-25-2006
are you sure you are not doing typo in side the script??
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Old 05-26-2006
thnx nilesrex and sheerenmotor..

actually i had been calling the script through the load leveller [job manager] and i learnt tht i had to mention "evnironment = COPY_ALL" if i have to get the variables set in the bashrc .
thats y it wasnt taking my variables and i had explicitly do an export.

i once again thank nilesrex for patiently helping me.. thanks a lot.
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