Error: Not found for variable

[babeo]

Hello,
I have a script working background to ftp files from dirA to another server and process it, and it working fine.

Now, I copy that script to another name, and change the dirA to dirB and run manually, and I get error below. I don't know why, could someone help please? Thanks

Notify that, both scripts are run at Korn shell.

[red]get_convert[19]: 20050110: not found[/red]

where '20050110' is just a variable set as:
$GET_DATE = '20050110'

Thanks

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
$GET_DATE = '20050110'
By this:
GET_DATE='20050110'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[babeo]

Oops,
Sorry I should type more carefully.
Yes, I set the variable as GET_DATE='20050110' beside, I said I copy the script to another name and only change the directory and the date to '20050110' only, nothing else is changed.
Is there any idea?
Thanks

 

[PHV]

Any chance you could post the contents of the get_convert script ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[babeo]

[blue] #!/bin/ksh
# .... after the 1st line above, is only the lengthly comment lines to descript about this script. I cut them off.
# For counting the line number, the below is line 19th per error message indicates
GET_DATE=`20050110`

# specify parameters for FTP connection with the next structure:
# correspondence line, where "" quote to explain the variable/data in the command line below it:
# "CONNECTION NAME"="LOCAL FOLDER NAME" "IP" "USER ID" "PASSWORD" "PATH" "FILE NAME"

LCM40="lcm40xin 192.25.xxx.xx babeo mypassword /data/vancouver/archives/lcm40xin [green]lcm_$GET_DATE*[0-9][/green]"
.....[/blue]

After the ftp above, the data is ftped to the directory /data/vancouver/archives/lcm40xin (original directory is /data/vancouver/lcm40xin), the file names is lcm_1to8.log-20050110[red]0839[/red].pro, then the rest of the script is only calling other procedures and do the work (without any substitution of the GET_DATE variable).

As you see, the data files are only different in the red part. So, I did try with [green]lcm_$GET_DATE*[0-9].proc[/green] too, but I have the same error message.

Thanks

 

[PHV]

So, replace the back-ticks by single quotes, ie,
Replace this:
GET_DATE=`20050110`
By this:
GET_DATE='20050110'

Hope This Helps, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884 or FAQ222-2244

 

[babeo]

Thanks PHV

I found the problem! Thanks for your help any way.
I must do a horrible mistake of cp.
It actually works for [green]lcm_$GET_DATE*[0-9].proc [/green] instead of lcm_$GET_DATE*[0-9], as I indicated above, however since it still displays the error (don't know why), I did not check for process, until I check the new directory and see the data is there, and so I check the process and see it's running!
Thanks again.