Shell Programming and Scripting

Can you do the following and post the output ?

Code:

set -x
sh hi.sh
set +x

The error is simply because the syntax of:

export CLASSPATH=/opt/SBM:/opt:$CLASSPATH

Is not valid in the bourne shell. In the bourne shell you do the at the same time as the assignment.

Gurus,

In our script we have explicity stated to use ksh as an interprter (#!/bin/ksh) on the first line of script so,

Swat,
Adding to the previous post,

Example in Bourne shell
VAR=/home/user/test:/home/user/test2
export VAR

Should this be working.

Experts please comment.

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan

Yes, and it will also wotk in ksh or bash. If you write your code for sh it will work in ksh or bash.

The problem the original poster was seeing was becasue the shell they were using as a login shell supports the short syntax. But they were incorrectly running the script by specifing "sh scriptname", thereby ignoring the #!/bin/ksh in a script that is written as a korn script.

relevant code:
#!/bin/sh

... NOTE: I am accepting parameters passed from Oracle Apps:
relevant code:
var1=$1
var2=$2
var3=$3
ReqID=$4

... NOTE: Displayed parameters are correct when this executes:
relevant code:
echo "$# unnamed params are $@"

... NOTE: I am creating and exporting a new variable using $4:
relevant code:
filename="o$ReqID.out"
export $filename

... NOTE: the error is produced and displays the path and file name of the UNIX script, the correct value for the var, then the error:
...o19130365.out: This is not an identifier.

Can you help?
Thanks!
tg

export the variable not its value.

Code:

export filename