I am testing a ksh script for email. In the script I receive several parameters. One of them is a subject. The subject may contain spaces. Ex. Test this. When I am running the script on telnet to test, how should the syntax at the command line be written. I have this:

ksh ResendE.sh '001111' '000001' 'christest.WDA.001111.000001. 'WDA' '01-NOV-01' '01-NOV-01' 'christest.WDA.001111' "" "" 'this subject' 'destintion'

this command believes the subject is blank. If I use double quotes I get the same results as I did from using single quotes. Can this be accomplished?

It looks like you are passing 11 command line args.
(the 3rd one is missing a quote - typo?)
The "" and "" I assume are "empty" strings you wish to
pass as args 8 and 9?
You should be able to pass arguments containing
spaces in single or double quotes without a problem.


You can add...
set -x
...to your script and actually trace the variable assigments
during execution and hopfully find the error.

If your still having problems, it might help to see the script.

Also, you can add a "\" before each space, for example:

This\ is\ the\ subject

Also, if your shell allows it, you could set the IFS equal to something else, like the ":" character...

YMMV since I did not test this before posting.