Re: Help Shell Script Woes

Van Messner wrote in message
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>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?

Environment variables in shell scripts are not available to the calling shell (command line). There is quite a good reason for this, but it's quite difficult to explain without getting into some very dull technical details...

However, your script is okay. Rather than calling it like this:

script.sh

Call it like this:

. script.sh

HTH,
--> Steve

     Stephen Darlington (http://www.zx81.org.uk)
                 "Never put a sock in a toaster"
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