Shell Programming and Scripting

hi everyone
i want to run a script in unix through cobol program
does anyone know how shell i do this ?
please please help me here
thanks

This is how I have done it in Micro Focus Cobol:
In working storage:

01 WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE PIC 9(8) COMP VALUE ZEROES.
01 WS-COMMAND.
03 FILLER PIC X(27) VALUE
"/directory/where/script/resides/script_name".
In the procedure division:
CALL "system" USING WS-COMMAND
GIVING WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE.

If your script returns a "return code" then you can check it to see if the script was successful or not.

hi jyoung
thanks for quick response
according to your example i have a directory
/home/shl
in that directory i have script cs-tr-700 run in c-shell
my cobol program does not exist in this directory . (i understand that it does not has to be in the same directory) anyway i wrote like this
01 WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE PIC 9(8) COMP VALUE ZEROES.
01 WS-COMMAND.
03 FILLER PIC X(40) VALUE
"/home/shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700".
in the working-storage
call "system" USING WS-COMMAND giving WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE.
when i'm running the program it write
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: /home/shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700 not found
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: sh: syntax error at line 3: `(' unexpect
what seems to be the problem thank you very much

Cut-and-paste the output of "ls -l /home/shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700".
Also, cut-and-paste the script.

The "sh" error messages below indicate that it's a shell error. ( Which is good, since your COBOL program seems to be doing what you want it to. )

Code:

UX:sh (sh): ERROR: /home/shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700 not found
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: sh: syntax error at line 3: `(' unexpect

hi
the result are :
UX:ls: ERROR: Cannot access /home/hoz_shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700
No such file or directory UX:ls: ERROR: Cannot access 00000000: No such file or directory UX:sh (sh)
UX:sh (sh): ERROR: sh: syntax error at line 3: `(' unexpec
the script doing like that
cs-tr-700
#!/bin/sh
mv cost_04200a cost_04200a_m
tr -d "\015" <cost_04200a_m> cost_04200a
please help

Try using "/home/hoz_shl/cs-tr-700" instead of "/home/hoz_shl/where/script/resides/cs-tr-700".

not working
help pleaseeeee