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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to pass a parameter with double quotes around it to a command Post 302452177 by Timo on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:07:39 PM
Old 09-09-2010
Thank you. It works now with minor adjustment as follows:

If the SomeExecutable is like this

Code:
$ cat SomeExecutable
echo SOME EXECUTABLE HERE
echo ARGS ARE
echo "P1="$1
echo "P2="$2

Then the output is,
Code:
SOME EXECUTABLE HERE ARGS ARE P1=--name="TIMO P2=2"

Fixing that required the following:

Code:
$ cat T1
CMD="./SomeExecutable"
CMD_IN='--name="TIMO 2"'
CMD_OUT=`$CMD "$CMD_IN"`
 
echo $CMD_OUT

Then the output is,
Code:
$ ./T1
SOME EXECUTABLE HERE ARGS ARE P1=--name="TIMO 2" P2=


Last edited by Scott; 09-09-2010 at 02:12 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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