passing env variable as parameter thru shell script

Rick001 · Post by **Rick001** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:10 am

I have added environment variable $APT_CONFIG_FILE in job parameters, it has got the path for the default.apt config file by default. I would like to pass different config file from the unix shell script using dsjob -run -param command. The dsjob code looks like this

dsjob -run -param '$APT_CONFIGFILE_FILE=/fs/sdfds/dfsd/dfd.apt' <project> <jobname>

If I try to run it is not giving any error at command line, moreover it is giving statuscode=0 and job has run successfully. But I see in the director job has got aborted saying that Fatal error: cannot continue without the configuration file. Can anyone tell me why it is not parameter given thru script. Do I need to change the default value of that variable in the job properties?

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:12 am

Get rid of the dollar sign.

Rick001 · Post by **Rick001** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:18 am

If I get rid of $ it is giving error
status code = -3 DSJE_BADPARAM

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:37 am

Ok nevermind. Does the config file exist. Does it have read permissions to your id?

Rick001 · Post by **Rick001** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:56 am

Problem got solved , one of the words in the path was spelled incorrectly. Now it is working fine.

singhald · Post by **singhald** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:54 am

Hi Rick,

could you please tell how did get rid off $ sign.

Regards

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:19 am

That was some bad advice that was withdrawn. If you are having a problem, please start your own thread on the subject.