Re: OT Unix shell variable question

you can do like this:

PASSWORD=$1; export PASSWORD
$1 is the agument you can pass in on unix command line.

Lucy

On Tue, 29 May 2001 Scott.Shafer_at_dcpds.cpms.osd.mil wrote:

> I am trying to pass a shell variable into a "here document" in a unix shell
> script, i.e.,
>
> export PASSWORD=the_pass
>
> svrmgrl << EOF
> connect user/$PASS
> do_stuff_here;
> commit;
> exit
> EOF
>
> I have tried: "$PASS" , \$PASS , and just plain $PASS - no dice.
> Anyone know how to do this? I spent too many hours in the sun this past
> weekend and am drawing a blank...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Shafer
> San Antonio, TX
> 210-581-6217
>
> "And no amount of training or preparedness can eliminate the almost
> certainty that in the middle of your Angry Crane stance, as you transition
> to your Combative Monkey to administer the Coup de Grāce via your Ninja
> Death Touch, you step on a beer bottle and fall backwards into the juke box
> and get your head stove in by a drunk with a pool cue." --Jay Trigg
>
>

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