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Hello

I need to pass some environment parameters to a datastage job and am getting an error when trying to send the complete concatinated variable. I have decided to parse out just the values and send as parameters but am struggling to find the best way to do this (actually I am not very experienced in the unix scripting syntax)

I need to parse/cut variables that look similar to the following:

Code:

MMDomain="-domain domainname:0000"
MMServer="-server servername:0000"
MMUser="-user username -password password"

I would like to turn these into parameters that I can pass to the datastage job and that look like the following:

Code:

PDomain=domainname:0000
PServer=servername:0000
PUser=username
Ppassword=password

I would really appreciate any help I could get on this as so far, I have had little success. Thanks you!

one way:

Code:

echo "$MMDomain" | read dummy PDomain
echo "$MMServer" | read dummy PServer
echo "$MMUser"   | read dummy Pusername dummy2 Ppassword

That will only work in ksh, any other shell will put the read in a subshell and hence not read the vars. Try echoing to a temp file and reading back from there.

Thanks Jim.

I don't really understand it but it worked PERFECTLY!!!