title: passing parameters to weblogic silent installation file
body: <p>I am trying to install weblogic server(10.3.6) using silent mode by passing parameters dynamically in my linux machine using bash shell.</p>
  
  <p>Below is my silent XML file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bea-installer&gt; 
      &lt;input-fields&gt;
          &lt;data-value name="BEAHOME" value="$MID_HOME" /&gt;
          &lt;data-value name="WLS_INSTALL_DIR" value="$MID_HOME"/wlserver_10.3 /&gt;
          &lt;data-value name="COMPONENT_PATHS" value="WebLogic Server/Core Application Server|WebLogic Server/Administration Console|WebLogic Server/Configuration Wizard and Upgrade Framework" /&gt;
          &lt;data-value name="INSTALL_NODE_MANAGER_SERVICE" value="no" /&gt;
      &lt;/input-fields&gt; 
  &lt;/bea-installer&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using below command to install:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java -jar wls1036_generic.jar -mode=silent -silent_xml=silent.xml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am getting error as :</p>
  
  <pre><code>Extracting 0%....................................................................................................100%
  The directory path must be absolute: [$MID_HOME]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I have defined the variable <code>MID_HOME as /scratch/user1/weblogic/Middleware</code>, also if I give complete path in my silent.xml file instead of using parameters($MID_HOME) then it is working fine.</p>
  
  <p>Please help me how to solve this issue?</p>