Jason,
Try enclosing the $* in "'s. (ie x.sh "$*").

Paul Stroud

"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" wrote:

> >From one of my Tivoli books:
>
> Event Log messags can be customized by using the following variables:
> ....
> $# Displays the number of variables in trap
> $* Displays all variables by trap
> ....
> $n Value of nth variable in trap
> etc
>
> My problem:
> I am adding a 'optional' action to be run for a specific trap.  This works,
> my action runs and I can verify the output.  Lets call my action x.sh.  FYI
> x.sh logs to a file that I am viewing.  x.sh is:
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "`date` -- $@" >> /tmp/x.out
> ---
>
> This is how I have tried to configure my action in Event Configuration
> (using full path of course):
> x.sh $# -- My output shows '7' as the number of variables (argc), looks
> good.
> x.sh $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 -- My output shows all 7 variables, everything
> looks good.
> x.sh $* -- Nothing gets written to log file.  No record of the action
> getting kicked off.
> x.sh $\* -- Output shows '$', guess the '\' tells the shell to ignore the
> '*'.
>
> I canot seem to get $* to work.  Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Jason Allison
> Principal Engineer
> ARINC Incorporated
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