Hi, in case anyone wants it, after much trial and error I finally found this working example of a multi-line STDPARM shell script for BPXBATCH. I still haven't found a way to have #comment lines, which seem to generate syntax errors, but if I accept that limitation, I am happy enough with this.
// EXPORT SYMLIST=* // SET BCDHOME='/usr/lpp/bcp/' home directory for BCP // SET E='/u/xxxxx/' error messages here //* //* multiline shell script with complex control structures //* //* haven't found a way yet to include #comments without error //* //BPXBATCH EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //OUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,OUT) SH ( set -o verbose ; set -o errexit ; set -x ; for jarname in `ls &BCDHOME.batch/*.jar 2>/dev/null` ; do if [ -z "$(echo $jarname | grep Doc\.jar)" ] ; then echo adding to ClassPath ; CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$jarname" ; fi done ; echo CLASSPATH is $CLASSPATH ; ) > &E.bcd-write.out 2>&E.bcd-write.err // What I like about this is when there is a syntax error I get the message in STDERR, and when there isn't the normal and error output goes to my specified files. I needed this as the placement of the semicolons was a bit hard to glean from the manual, e.g. 'for' needs one but not 'then' or 'fi', etc. If anyone can suggest how to put a comment it that works without error, I'm all ears. For example of the error, this code that has the #comment added to the 'for', SH ( set -o verbose ; set -o errexit ; set -x ; for jarname in `ls &BCDHOME.batch/*.jar 2>/dev/null` #comment ; do if [ -z "$(echo $jarname | grep Doc\.jar)" ] ; then echo adding to ClassPath ; CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$jarname" ; fi done ; echo CLASSPATH is $CLASSPATH ; ) > &E.bcd-write.out 2>&E.bcd-write.err gives this error in STDERR: FSUM7332 syntax error: got EOF, expecting do I'm still learning the ins and outs of SH but I was surprised to read that a comment is "EOF". best regards, Peter (MVS-OE seems a little quiet so I thought I might start here). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN