problem running cmd from ksh script

Hi,

I am running command like this directly from ksh shell:

ant doBuild "-Dstate=INT TEST"

This works from the ksh command line. However, if I run it in a
script with these contents:

#!/bin/ksh
ant doBuild "-Dstate=INT TEST"

It does not work, what is the difference between calling it from shell
cmd line, and the script. The problem is that ant does not pickup my
properties unless i run it directly from command line, has nothing to
do with environment variables from what i can see.

Re: problem running cmd from ksh script

In article <1190727532.281571.209370@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
dave wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running command like this directly from ksh shell:
>
> ant doBuild "-Dstate=INT TEST"
>
> This works from the ksh command line. However, if I run it in a
> script with these contents:
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> ant doBuild "-Dstate=INT TEST"
>
> It does not work, what is the difference between calling it from shell
> cmd line, and the script. The problem is that ant does not pickup my
> properties unless i run it directly from command line, has nothing to
> do with environment variables from what i can see.

They should be identical, assuming ksh is your interactive shell. And
even if it isn't, I think all well-known shells will execute that simple
command line the same way.

My first thought was that maybe the script has a CR before the newline
at the end of the command line, because you wrote it on a Windows box
and didn't transfer it to Unix properly. But that would also break the
#! line, which would result in an error when you try to run the script.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: problem running cmd from ksh script

> #!/bin/ksh
> ant doBuild "-Dstate=INT TEST"
>

Is ant a function? If so, I think you'd have to source that file to
ensure the function is available to this new script.

You can find out by typing:

type ant

If it's a function, then try sourcing the appropriate file.

Rob