Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm new to SunOS and I need some help.

I'm trying to run the commands below inside the korn shell below on SunOS 5.8 but it does not do anything except echo ABC. No error gets displayed when running the shell.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

echo ABC
export ENV_1=/folder1/subfolder
cd folder2

All 3 commands above work when I run them outside of the shell at the command prompt.

Any help in getting this shell to work will be greatly appreciated.

Steve

Actually you would not see any messages for the export and cd command. If you want the changes to be permanent, then try running the script as

Code:

. youscript.ksh

rather than just

Code:

yourscript.ksh

or

Code:

./yourscript.ksh

To see the actual effect of your script, try this

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

echo ABC
export ENV_1=/folder1/subfolder
echo $ENV_1
cd folder2
pwd

Vino,

It worked.

Thank you very much for your help!

Cheers
Steve