X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4933240.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:31:56 -0700 (PDT) From: prz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: variable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-Sender: Guy DOT Przytula AT riziv DOT fgov DOT be X-Nabble-From: prz X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 Thanks for allinfo/help Best Regards, Guy Przytula -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/variable-t1810207.html#a4933240 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- 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/