RE: Korn Shell Q

From: Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:58:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00420EDB.20020306095840@fatcity.com>

The problem is I am using "getopt" to process the switches...

while getopts :pg: option
do

   case $option in

      p) OPTION_p=Y ;;
      g) GID=$OPTARG  ;;
     \?) print $OPTARG is not a valid argument. ; exit 0 ;;

   esac
done

shift $(expr $OPTIND - 1)

After the shift, the $1 arg should be the ORACLE_SID passed in.

When called directly everything works fine...

exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST

echo $GID returns

dba apps

When called from another script echo $GID returns

"dba

You can see it thinks the double quote is part of the argument for -g, is also does not thing apps is part of it. The reason is how it is treating the " double quotes. When called directly it sees them as surrounding the dba and apps words and all of it is part of the -g argment. When called from a script dynaically it treats the double quotes as part of the argment. I think I will paly around with single ticks to see if that works. I think there is a command that will basically expand the command once before running it, and I think that will work, but I can't recall it at the moment. I will keep tinkering.

Thanks,
Ethan

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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Ethan --

As I understand it, your skip isn't working if there are multiple parameters passed in, so that when you get your parameters and do your skip, you are skipping one "word" and then the next parameter fails. If that is the case, what you may want to do is parse out the multi-parameter string with awk -F" {'print $2'}. Then count the words separately and skip those.

HTH. BTW, I'm tied up with AppsDBA stuff and am not monitoring the List as I should. Feel free to email me directly if I can provide addition assistance.

Bambi.
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