Identifier issue

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

We are in the process of migrating our servers from Solaris to AIX.
During our testing phase, while we are testing the scripts(reccnt.int), we are getting the following error during execution:

/reccnt.int[32]: a:fname:b:dte:tme:eqind:norecs:cntr:c:d:e:f: is not an identifier

It is executing successfully in Solaris server.

Please advise.

Thanks

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2

Paste some piece of code.

regards,
Ahamed

3 
#!/bin/sh 

RC=0   ; # return code
# first check input file
if [ ! -f $1 ] ; then
  echo "Input file not found: " $1
  exit 1 
fi
# =====================================
#  read first record of cntl file, separate into variables
#
#  set IFS and reset after read cmd:
#  set IFS to be colon (":")
# =====================================
IFS=:
read a:fname:b:dte:tme:eqind:norecs:cntr:c:d:e:f < $1
IFS=" "
4

Is ksh available? If so, try it, it could go without modification.

Or if not, perhaps read a fname b dte tme eqind norecs cntr c d e f < $1

5

Try this...

IFS=: 
read a fname b dte tme eqind norecs cntr c d e f < $1 
IFS=" "

regards,
Ahamed

6

but in the first line it is given as IFS=:
is it fine to remove ":" in the below mention code:

 read a:fname:b:dte:tme:eqind:norecs:cntr:c:d:e:f < $1

Thanks

7

Yes of course. It depends on the shell you are working on. You can test it by removing that. It will work.

Cheers!