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Hi All,

I have stumbled upon very unique issue. In my script I am doing cat file and then greping and cutting so as to assign the value to variable. My file is,

<mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh>

Code:

DB_USER=test_oper
hostname=xxx
FTP_USER=test1_operate
MAIL_LIST=xxx@yyy.com
SLEEPTIME=7200
PROD_CONN=aaa.bb.cc.com
UAT_CONN=bbb.bb.cc.com
PROD_FTP_HOST=x1.bb.cc.com
UAT_FTP_HOST=y1.bb.cc.com

In my script ,

Code:

FTP_USER=`cat mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh| grep -i "FTP_USER"|cut -d"=" -f2`

This command did not work and gives error as
cat: cannot open mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh

But in the same script after above command next variable "hostname" is able to be extracted (with exact same command) and is assigned to variable.

The script worked on "SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-55 sun4us sparc FJSV,GPUZC-Land" but issue is coming on "SunOS 5.10 Generic_137111-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise"

I have alrady checked for white space issue.

Can anybody help?

Regards

Moderator's Comments:

Please use code tags when posting data and code samples!

First check both scripts for invisible bad characters. This sed command is designed to make control characters visible.

Code:

sed -n l scriptname

Aside. A better method is to "source" the variables.
e.g. In the main script use the construct dot-space-filename to invoke the other script in your environment. This single command line will set all the environment variables in one go.

Code:

. ./mxc_tl_load_extractdata_prop.bsh