HI , In the below script I am trying to return the value of the environment variable TIBCO_HOME to the caller #! /usr/bin/csh set VAR_NAME=$1 echo VAR_NAME On the aix console.. set to setenv TIBCO_HOME /app/tibco When I execute the script… myscript.sh TIBCO_HOME, the script prints TIBCO_HOME. But I am expecting /app/tibco. Can anyone help me to fix this? Thanks, Babu

You forgot the dollar sign for echoing the contents of a shell variable: echo $VAR_NAME

HI, Thanks for your response. I changed my script but still the script prints TIBCO_HOME. I am invoking the script as "csh -f test1.sh TIBCO_HOME" echo $TIBCO_HOME on unix console returns /app/tibco, I want the same output from my script. Below is the modified script.. #! /usr/bin/csh set VAR_NAME=$1 echo $VAR_NAME Thanks, bce

First, there is no reason for you to do this: csh -f test1.sh TIBCO_HOME Since you are invoking csh in your script with #!/usr/bin/csh there is no reason to spawn the extra shell. This will do the job just as well: test1.sh TIBCO_HOME Second, if you are trying to pass argument 1, and then echo that as an environmental variable, then this should work. If TIBCO_HOME isn't defined, the script will error out: #! /usr/bin/csh # this script, test1.sh, takes one argument, TIBCO_HOME in this case: # test1.sh TIBCO_NAME # then, echo out the shell environmental variable TIBCO_HOME eval echo \"\$${1}\"

Babu, See the below script, i hope it will clear your doubts #!/usr/bin/csh #Get the env variable values set JP=$1 echo $JP # user given input values echo $JAVA_BINDIR # Env variable Run: $ ./env_val.csh Testinput Output: Testinput /usr/lib/java/jre/bin Note: if you want change the env file variable and values after that you have to source the env files. then only it will affect the env file. for sourcing the env file: $ . . env Thanks