Re: Help Shell Script Woes

You probably didn't run it as ". yourscript.sh" (no quotes). The dot is important.

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In article <006fb0e0.68a5070d_at_usw-ex0106-047.remarq.com>,   Van Messner <vmessnerNOvmSPAM_at_discovernet.com.invalid> wrote:
> The following shell script does not reset the ORACLE_SID
> environment variable. What am I doing wrong. This is a Bourne
> shell on Sun Solaris.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Type the SID for the database you want to shut down"
> echo "Your choices are DNEG GSP2 GSPD ORCL"
> read dbsid
> case $dbsid
> in
> DNEG) echo "van dneg" ;;
> GSP2) echo "van gsp2"
> echo "$dbsid"
> ORACLE_SID=$dbsid
> export ORACLE_SID ;;
> *) echo "no SID entered" ;;
> esac
>
> If I run the script and respond with GSP2:
> The case statement works - I get the echo messages.
> $dbsid is what I expect - I can see it from the echo statement
> and what I see is GSP2
> Thus I assume the assigment to ORACLE_SID is ok.
> But when I look at my environment variables, the ORACLE_SID is
> not changed to GSP2.
>
> Can anyone think why not?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Van
>
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