I'm not too familiar with UNIX but I'm guessing that the line containing 'exec' is passing the contents of the .profile into the array emvlines which is then parsed in the foreach loop - (Our sites .profile standards, well don't exist, so we could have several commands on one line including export for example. What's puzzling me here is the variable declarations at the begining. Is the first parameter supplied the name of the .profile file? If so what is the purpose of @my_parms? Our .profile covers all 3 DB's we just type in the relevant name at the UNIX prompt and the appropriate environment is available. Have I misunderstood? Cheers, Ronnie

In reply to Re^2: Unix Aliases? by Ronnie
in thread Unix Aliases? by Ronnie

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