Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

OS - Suse 10
ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 93s+ 2008-01-31

I am passing two words within double quotes ("Application Developer") to script as variable, but script is adding two single quotes between two words like ("Application' 'Developer").

below is simple test script which is part of a bigger script.

dummy.ksh
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Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#

title='"Application Developer"'
echo $title

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When I ran script in debug mode, I can see echo is returning (echo "Application' 'Developer"), what echo is returning is what getting passed to another script but without two single quotes arourd double quotes..

Code:

user@server:~/tmp> ksh -x dummy.sh
+ title='"Application Developer"'
+ echo '"Application' 'Developer"'
"Application Developer"

I tried different ways what were suggested in several forums, but didn't help me, any idea how can

Thanks in advance
srimitta

try

Code:

[Makarand] # cat dummy.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
title="Application Developer"
echo "$title"
[Makarand] # ./dummy.sh
+ title=Application Developer
+ echo Application Developer
Application Developer

I didn't get your problem. do you want to pass this double quoted string to another script which you are calling inside your script? Please elaborate ?

wrap $title with double quotes

Code:

$ cat sam.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
title='"Application Developer"'
echo $title
echo "$title"
$ ksh -x sam.sh
+ title='"Application Developer"'
+ echo '"Application' 'Developer"'
"Application Developer"
+ echo '"Application Developer"'
"Application Developer"
$

[edit] SriniShoo has it. Putting quotes within quotes will not protect your string from splitting -- properly quoting it when you use it will.

I suspect you don't actually want or need the inner quotes as literal quote characters and should dispense with them.