Re: BASH Scripting

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Nithakorne wrote:

> I am trying to set the value of SIDS in the following script to
> something other than "". It seems that once out of the do/done block the
> value od $SIDS reverts back to ""....why is this and how can I get $SIDS
> to keep its new value opnce out of the do/done block. 
> 

The pipe forks a new command, and your variables are not exported.
Since your oratab file is pretty small, you can read it in block like this:

##################################
lines=`grep -v '^#' /etc/oratab`
for LINE in $lines
do
 ...
done
##################################

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