X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:26:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: prz cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: variable In-Reply-To: <4933240.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: References: <4933240.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, prz wrote: > I have cygwin running o win/xp > whenever I execute a script that accepts options like : > while getopts "d:a:s:u:" option; do > case "$option" in > d) DBNAME=$OPTARG > ;; > a) OBJECT=$OPTARG > ;; > s) CREATOR=$OPTARG > ;; > u) USER=$OPTARG > ;; > *) usage > esac > done > the variable tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:echo $OBJECT > dt > is maintained and if executing again with new option, this is not been taken > and still using old value. I tried to unset OBJECT. when executing this > statement in the script, the script and dos-window (running cygwin bash) > will be closed. > Is this correct ? and how to correct this problem Please provide a simple complete testcase that exhibits the problem, read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at , and at least tell us which shell you're using. Until you do all three of the above, it's unlikely anyone will be able to help you. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/