Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am executing a shell script which takes a string as a parameter.
The scipt should validate the string and create the directoy with the name of specfied string.

The following is the specified command and its parameter.

test.sh "abc abc"

The shell script is not able to identify that the parameter "abc abc" as a single parameter. It takes the input as 2 parameters as it cannot identify the quotes (") specified.

Please suggest me how can I identify that qoutes have been specified as the input parameter.

So, if I am able to identity the quotes in the input parameter then I will throw an error in the cases where input "abc abc" or similar is given.

Thanks in advance
Raghu

let it take as 2 parameters...

in the shell script

do this..

str= `echo "$1 $2"`

double post

See the following, where it appears the shell is taking everything inside quotes as one parameter.

Code:

> cat file8.sh
echo $#
echo $*
echo "1="$1
echo "2="$2

> file8.sh a b
2
a b
1=a
2=b

> file8.sh "a b"
1
a b
1=a b
2=

Thanks for the reply ,

But I dont want to throw error if user specified " as part of the argument.