using variables with nsrmm -S

[mpezeur]

Has anyone tried to use variables with the nsrmm -S command to change an SSID's browse and retention dates?
For example, the following works:

nsrmm -S 12345 -e "8 weeks" -w "4 weeks"

changes the retention policy to 8 weeks and 4 wks for browse for SSID 12345, but the following will result in error:

nsrmm -S 12345 -e $RETENT -w $BROWSE

I receive the error: nsrmm: invalid volume name `-w'
I tried this from command line as well as via a script. Has anyone successfully used variable substitution with the nsrmm -S command?

 

[TDun]

Sounds like your variables are not set.
If you do an echo $RETENT, what does it return?
You are using Unix aren't you, as variables work differently on Windoze.

 

[mpezeur]

Yes, I'm running Networker on AIX (UNIX). From the command line, while trying this, I'm set the $BROWSE and $RETENT to "1 month". I've also tried with ' instead of "; also tried "\"1 month\"". Any way, no luck. When I echo out the settings for each variable, I do get the desired results. Yet, no luck for the nsrmm command:

# export BROWSE="1 month"
# export RETENT="1 month"
# echo $BROWSE
1 month
# echo $RETENT
1 month
# nsrmm -S 349454849 -e $RETENT -w $BROWSE
nsrmm: invalid volume name `-w'
usage: nsrmm [-v | -q] [-s server] [-f device]
or nsrmm -l [-v | -q] [-s server] [-f device] [-myB]
[-e forever] [-c capacity] [-b pool] [-R | volume]
or nsrmm {-u | -j} [-v | -q] [-s server] [-y] [-f device | volume...]
or nsrmm -p [-v | -q] [-s server] [-f device]
or nsrmm -m [-v | -q] [-s server] [-f device] [-r] [volume]
or nsrmm {-d | -o mode} [-v | -q] [-s server] [-Py]
[-S ssid[/cloneid] | -V volid | volume...]
or nsrmm [-s server] -S ssid {-w browsetime | -e retentiontime}

 

[keziah]

use

nsrmm -S 349454849 -e "$RETENT" -w "$BROWSE"