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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, prz wrote:
>
> > thanks for the update
> > a simple testcase
> > tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:echo $OBJECT
> >
> > tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:. ./testcase -a dt
                                ^
There it is.

> > print object dt
> > tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:. ./testcase -a dt
> > print object dt
> > tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:. ./testcase -a dl
> > print object dt
> > tempdba:/cygdrive/c/workdir:echo $OBJECT
> > dt
> > the code :
> > #!/bin/bash
> > while getopts "a:" option; do
> > case "$option" in
> >    a)   OBJECT=$OPTARG
> >         ;;
> >    *)   exit
> > esac
> > done
> > case "$OBJECT" in
> >    dt)
> > echo "print object $OBJECT"
> >    ;;
> >    dl)
> > echo "print object $OBJECT"   ;;
> >     *)  usage
> > esac
> > #exit
> > Thanks for all info/help
> > Best Regards, Guy Przytula
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM>.  Please read and follow the Cygwin
> problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  Also,
> please let us know exactly how you invoke your script -- the normal
> invocation should not affect anything in the environment of the calling
> process.  IIRC, getopts won't work well in sourced scripts.

Never mind.  I couldn't figure out how you got the output you got without
sourcing the script, but I thought that '.' was part of your prompt.  Ok,
now you'll need to explain why you are sourcing the script rather than
just invoking it.  A forgotten "chmod +x", perhaps?
	Igor
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