Hi, I am using korn script to launch an ADV+ program (a legacy language) based on certain conditions. The full script is given below. ============================================= #!/usr/bin/ksh scnUser=$1 scnProg=$2 while true do begin: clear tempFile="/out/uow.$$" uid=`id -un` tFile1="/out/"${uid}"_1.$$" tFile2="/out/"${uid}"_2.$$" errFile="/out/"${uid}"_$$.err" echo $scnUser > $tFile1 tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' < $tFile1 > $tFile2 read scnUpperUser < $tFile2 rm -f $errFile 2>/dev/null rm -f $tFile1 2>/dev/null rm -f $tFile2 2>/dev/null rm -f $tempFile 2>/dev/null echo ; echo print -n "[scnloc-$scnUpperUser]" echo print -n "Scan WO >" read uow uow_length=${#uow} echo $uow > $tempFile if [[ $uow = "EXIT" ]] || [[ $uow = "exit" ]] then exit 0 fi if [ $uow_length -ne 13 ] ; then echo echo " Invalid UOW." echo " ====================" echo " 'Y' to Clear Error" echo " ?" read _getY if [ $_getY = "Y" ] ; then goto begin fi fi echo "Program is $scnProg" run $scnProg $scnUser $errFile < $tempFile 2>/dev/null if [ -e $errFile ] ; then cat $errFile echo echo " ===================" echo " 'Y' to Clear Error" echo " ?" read _getY if [ $_getY = "Y" ] ; then continue fi fi echo "Loging Off [$scnProg]" ============================================= You could see that there is a goto begin in the script where the uow_length is not equal to 13. This goto is not working. Basically I want go back to the begin of the do loop and it should wait for the response for the statement "read uow". I tried continue and it doesn't seem to work either. Can some one help me how to go the begining of the loop when the uow_length is not equal to 13? I can code the remaining part of the script in the else part, but I don't wanna do that. Thanks, Balaji.

I don't see where the problem is, but it looks like the if statement is failing. This small test script works on my Solaris 9 system: #!/bin/ksh _getY="Y" if [ $_getY = "Y" ] ; then echo "getY is Y" fi read uow uow_length=${#uow} echo $uow_length if [ $uow_length -ne 13 ]; then echo "Invalid UOW" fi Does it work on yours? if it doesn't then your problem is somewhere else. Have you tried something like this: if [[ ${uow_length} -ne 13 ]] ; then echo "Invalid UOW" fi

Hi, My script is working fine. I figured out that I need to use "continue" statement to go back to the next iteration. Thanks for your response. Thanks, Balaji.