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Thank you. this worked

I am on a windows 2003 server, trying to write a dos batch script. I have a file with a date in it "date.txt" content looks like "Thu Mar 29 12:27:36 2012" I have another file copy.cmd that has 5 input parms corresponding to the 5 date parts above %1 is for "day", %2 is for "month", %3 is for...

Issue solved. my command now works in the script. CSTIME=$(grep "$JNAME" "$TBL" | cut -f2 -d',') My issue was unseen characters caused by the windows editor. I removed them by using "dos2unix temp1.ksh temp2.ksh" Thanks to everyone that replied.

Sweet! That was the ticket to my troubles.

The entire script is posted at the top of the thread. I was answering a specific correction suggested by "ProbablyDown:

did you mean changing it like this? if [[ -n "$QETIME" ]]; then because that did not work either. same error.

syntax error at line 2 : `if' unmatched

I am using ksh on a SunOS machine. I cannot figure out why I am receiving this "if" error. SYTIME="10:30" if [ -n "$QETIME" ]; then JEND=$SYTIME fi echo QETIME:$QETIME echo JEND:$JEND

all good replies. I seem to have isolated the issue down to just the grep part. original command: JNAME=PA3.1 TBL=Jobcheck.tbl CSTIME=$(grep $JNAME $TBL | cut -f2 -d',') simple command: Jobcheck.tbl contains "PA3.1,0,0,0,20" echo $JNAME CSTIME=$(grep $JNAME Jobcheck.tbl) I echo $JNAME before...

exactly that is the odd problem. Jobcheck.tbl IS in the same directory as the the file executing (Jobcheck.ksh). and both files are set to 7777.

no, the awk version did not work. "awk: can't open ./Jobcheck.tbl"

looks like it is ksh $ ps -fp $$ UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD leroy 3625 3633 0 06:34:49 pts/1 0:00 -ksh

Been away from this for awhile. My last work with unix shell was on HPUX about 8 years ago. How can I tell what shell version? OS is Solaris 10 10/09 s10s_u8wos_08a SPARC

Thanks, I tried the () idea and it did not work.

this command works CSTIME=$(grep "PA3.1" Jobcheck.tbl | cut -f2 -d',') but when I replace the values with variables with same values CSTIME=$(grep $JNAME $TBL | cut -f2 -d',') I get "error can't open Jobcheck.tbl" Am I missing special characters in the 2nd grep command? Any help would be...