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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing variable as an argument to another script Post 302853003 by Manasa Pradeep on Friday 13th of September 2013 03:10:14 AM
Old 09-13-2013
Passing variable as an argument to another script
Hi,

I am trying to pass a variable as an argument to another script. While substitution of variable, I am facing a problem.
varaiable "a" value should be -b "FPT MAIN".
When we pass "a" to another script, we are expecing it to get substitue as ./test.sh -b "FPT MAIN". But, it is getting substituted as ./test.sh -b '"FPT' 'MAIN"', which is causing a problem.

Could someone suggest how to achieve this.


Code:
bash$ a=" -b \"FPT MAIN\" "; 
bash$ echo $a
-b "FPT MAIN"
bash$
bash$
bash$ a=" -b \"FPT MAIN\" "; echo $a ;set -x ; ./test.sh $a; set +x
-b "FPT MAIN"
+ ./test.sh -b '"FPT' 'MAIN"'
-b "FPT MAIN"
+ set +x
bash$
bash$
bash$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
a=$@
echo $a

 

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