problems with shell script

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i am somewhat forced to use an environmet i am really not used to. I have a large prepare script that generates a jobscript for our cluster. I stripped out a minimal example that shows what is not working right now.

#! /bin/ksh

EXPDIR="/home/user1/tmp/exp"
EXPNO="${testno}"

if [ ! -d "$EXPDIR" ]; then
    /client/bin/mkdir -p "${EXPDIR}"
    cd "${EXPDIR}"
fi

jobname="${jobname:-${EXPNO}}"
jobfile="${jobfile:-${EXPDIR}/${jobname}.job}"


cat >"${jobfile}" <<EOF1



#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# TEST 
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

This script should create a file called testno.job containing

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# TEST 
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

in the directory /home/user1/tmp/exp and create the directory if it is not existing. The only problem is that the file is not called testno.job but .job. Can you help me out?

Blagovest Buyukliev · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-10 12:01:26Z

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Obviously, the jobfile variable contains .job rather than testno.job. I think you need to set testno because it is used to produce the jobname variable.

answered Jun 10, 2011 at 12:01

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clt60 · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-10 12:04:04Z

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IMHO, you haven't defined the ${testno} variable.

answered Jun 10, 2011 at 12:04

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