Re: Text Substitution and Script

hi,
source will not execute/lunch the script.. It only
will source/load the  setting into your environment..
What u can do is,

change your script to be executable
1)chmod 755 myscript
Execute your script
2)./myscript


--- Venky Chakravarthy <sas_geek1991@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sed Wizards,
> 
> I have a script that has worked well in a previous
> job. However, the same script doesn't work in my
> current SunOS: 5.8 setting. First there is a
> difference in the way I call the script in my
> current
> environment:
> 
> /home/myname/ 127> source myscript
> 
> previously I would simply do this as
> 
> /home/myname/ 127> myscript
> 
> What may be some of the system set-up differences
> that
> necessitates the use of "source"? This difference
> per
> se is not a big thing. Why does the following script
> fail which used to work before? It does not
> recognize
> "for" and "do".
> 
> cupsas01 /wwbdm/clin/proj/ca/183/maclib/dev/scripts/
> 124> more change1.script 
> #!/bin/sh 
> # Perform a global search and replace operation on
> all
> *.sas files in this directory 
> 
> for sas_filename in *.sas 
>    do 
>        sed 's/180/183/g' $sas_filename >
> temp_filename
> 
>        mv -f temp_filename $sas_filename 
>    done 
> 
> Here is the how the script is called and the
> messages.
> 
> cupsas01 /wwbdm/clin/proj/ca/183/maclib/dev/scripts/
> 125> source change1.script 
> for: Command not found. 
> do: Command not found. 
> sas_filename: Undefined variable.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Venky Chakravarthy
> 
> 
> 


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