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Hi, could somebody please advise me about the scope of variables in a bourne shell script in the following situation: If I have a script printName - just for simplicity #!/bin/sh VAR_NAME=$1 export $VAR_NAME while [ true ] do echo $VAR_NAME done Now if I run this 3 times concurrently...

Hi, is it possible to specify a label name for a unix script when running it? Then when greping for the script afterwards one could just grep for the label name. I want to be able to uniquely identify different instances of the same script running and I was wondering if I could add a unique...

Hi, I have a table with 15 columns. However, in my data file I only have 9 columns. I have created a format file to map the data fields to the relevant columns. Each time I BCP data into the table though it just inserts the data into the first 9 columns regardless of the fact that I have mapped...

Hi, I would like to check if my understanding is correct of how a single script creates new processes. When the script starts initially it creates a new process. This is the parent process. Then as new processes are spawned within the script they will have a new PID but the PPID will be the...

Hi, I have a Unix script which I start and then immediately after starting it I check to see if another process with the same script name but not the same current process id is running. What I noticed is that when I launch this script. Just by calling its name from another script there are 2...