Hi Viraj,
Who is going to be running this script? Will it run from a crontab or
command line by multiple users? Can you please give more detail on what yu
are trying to accomplish.
-Rocky
--- Viraj Luthra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Ihave the following script, called as tst. When the script is executed
> as,
>
> tst, then every thing is okay, but when it is executed as . tst, then I
> get the error:-
>
> sh: SHLIB_PATH: Parameter not set.
>
> I need to use the following format that is
> . .profile, as in above case as . tst
>
> The reason why I am doing above is because the SHLIB_PATH is not set
> properly, I get heaps of problems. If the SHLIB_PATH is not set, I just
> want to set it to say $HOME.
>
> Please reply as this is urgent.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Raja
>
> ======================================
>
> The script follows:-
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> echo
> echo
> echo Start Test
> echo
> echo uname -a = `uname -a`
> echo First check what happens if you try and set SHLIB_PATH
> echo and there is no initial setting
> unset SHLIB_PATH
> echo First what is its value?
> echo SHLIB_PATH = $SHLIB_PATH
> echo Now lets set it to default:123
> SHLIB_PATH="$SHLIB_PATH:123"
> echo OK what is the value now?
> echo SHLIB_PATH = $SHLIB_PATH
> echo
> echo Now lets reset the value to nothing
> unset SHLIB_PATH
> echo Check value
> echo SHLIB_PATH = $SHLIB_PATH
> echo Now do what is in our script....
> if [ -z "${SHLIB_PATH}" ]; then
> echo It has no current default value
> SHLIB_PATH="${HOME}"
> else
> echo It has a default path of $SHLIB_PATH
> SHLIB_PATH="${HOME}:${SHLIB_PATH}"
> fi
> echo So what is our final result?
> echo SHLIB_PATH = $SHLIB_PATH
>
>
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