topic Re: shell assignment doesn't work in Operating System - HP-UX

shell assignment doesn't work

andi_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:42:39 GMT

Hi guys,

mountPoint="/mnt_simple"

Does anyone know why the following line doesn't work?
myFstyp=`mount -p | grep "$mountPoint " | awk '{print $3}'`

echo "fstype = $myFstyp" # doesn't display anything

While, if I execute the above line on the command prompt, it works fine....

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Re: shell assignment doesn't work

S.K. Chan — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:48:03 GMT

Why don;t just use the command ..
# fstyp /dev/vg00/lvol1
for the FS mounted from /dev/vg00/lvol1 for instance.

just a thought ..

Re: shell assignment doesn't work

Christopher McCray_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:48:06 GMT

Hello,

From what you are saying, it sounds like you are running this out of cron or something.

at the top of your script:

PATH=/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

or state the absolut path of every command you execute.

Hope I understood you correctly

Chris

Re: shell assignment doesn't work

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:49:44 GMT

Hi,

mountPoint="/mnt_simple"
export mountPoint

myFstyp=`/sbin/mount -p | grep "$mountPoint " | awk '{print $3}'`

Piyush

Re: shell assignment doesn't work

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:11:19 GMT

Hi Lz

try this
mountPoint="/mnt_simple"
export myFstyp=`/usr/sbin/mount -p | grep "$mountPoint " | awk '{print $3}'`

This should the the parameter correctly

Manoj Srivastava

Re: shell assignment doesn't work

harry d brown jr — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:26:10 GMT

lz,

Like they have said, use fstyp.

BUT, I tried your example (with a different mount point) and it works fine.

what does:

mount -p | grep "$mountPoint " | od -bc

return??

live free or die
harry