Hi,

Doh! Mea culpa: I made an error in the name of the parameter (not the one in the example above), so of course the binding never worked.

All of the syntax works (in GNU/linux's bash ), except
-b"$db-name=Value" because the shell will interpret $dp, so one must use instead:
-b'$db-name=Value'

2015-03-05 10:54 GMT+01:00 Olivier Jeulin <olivier.jeulin.work@gmail.com>:

Hello,

I'm also strugling to pass parameters:
in my XQuery :
declare variable $db-name external;
I tried, following the documentation “-b$v=example” :
basexclient script.xq -b\$db-name=Value
basexclient script.xq -b"$db-name=FichiersBase"
basexclient script.xq -bdb-name=Value
basexclient script.xq -b"db-name=Value"

and everytime:
[XPDY0002] No value assigned to $db-name.

What's the correct syntax???!

2015-02-23 16:44 GMT+01:00 Marco Lettere <marco.lettere@dedalus.eu>:
Hello all,
I'm unable to execute the example from documentation:

bin/basex -b$v=example "declare variable $v external; $v"

IT gives this exception:

Stopped at ., 1/19:
[XPST0003] Expecting '$', found 'e'.

Any clues?
Regards,
MArco.