RE: BASH Scripting

Thanks very much for your response which has resolved my problem.
However, it does leave me with a question. I have written the same
script on HPUX and it worked fine there. Is this down to the difference
in behaviour between BASH and KSH?

-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Galea [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 18 March 2003 18:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: 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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