RE: Korn Shell Q

post your script.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Post, Ethan wrote:

> Forgot something the call from inside the check_all_exfail.sh script looks
> like this...
>
> exfail.sh $EXFAIL_OPTIONS $ORACLE_SID
>
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>
> I have a shell script called exfail.sh which checks for potential extent
> failures on a database. The script accepts a couple of command line
> switches.
>
> exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST
>
> Basically this says run the exfail.sh script against the "TEST" instance,
> (-p) page people if there are problems, (-g) send the page/email to everyone
> in the "dba" and "apps" group.
>
> This works just fine. I have another script which rolls through the oratab
> file and calls exfail.sh against every database on the host.
>
> check_all_exfail.sh
>
> The scripts sources in some environment files which set up the command line
> parameters for the host or database.
>
> EXFAIL_OPTIONS="-p -g \"dba apps\""
>
> When I run "set -x" in the script I can see the call from
> check_all_exfail.sh to exfail.sh is correct just like the first example.
>
> exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST
> exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" DEV
> exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" FOO
> ...
>
> However the exfail.sh script parses the command line in an entirely
> different manner. The -g switch picks up
>
> "dba
>
> as the $OPTARG and not
>
> dba apps
>
> thus
>
> apps"
>
> becomes the $1 argument instead of the correct
>
> TEST
>
> I know I need to tell the check_all_exfail.sh file to parse the line twice
> (I think) bit I can't remember the command off had to do this. Anyone have
> some ideas for me to try?
>
> Thanks,
> Ethan
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