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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue handling single quoted argument in shell script. Post 303039334 by mohtashims on Tuesday 1st of October 2019 06:00:25 AM
Old 10-01-2019
Issue handling single quoted argument in shell script.
Below is my script that works fine and prints the desired output:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "$1" |
  while IFS= read -r dirpath
do
  echo "DIRR_PATH:$dirpath"
  install_dir=$install_dir" "$dirpath
done
echo "Desired Output:$install_dir"

Output:
Code:
./loopissue.sh "/tmp/scripts\\n/tmp/mrt\\n/tmp/exe"
DIRR_PATH:/tmp/scripts
DIRR_PATH:/tmp/mrt
DIRR_PATH:/tmp/exe
Desired Output:/tmp/scripts /tmp/mrt /tmp/exe

The problem is i'm not getting a clean way to seperate the arguments with a single white space as seen in the "desired output:" above when the parameters are passed in single qoutes like below:

Code:
./loopissue.sh '/tmp/scripts\\n/tmp/mrt\\n/tmp/exe'

I'm on Aix6.1 and ksh shell.

Can you please suggest how can I get similar output when the argument is passed in single quotes ?

I tried removing the single quotes using the below two approaches but that did not help.
Code:
sed "s/'//g"
tr -d"'"

In Summary: All \\n should be replaced by single white space and single quotes should be removed from the argument and stored in a variable.
Last edited by mohtashims; 10-01-2019 at 08:51 AM..
 

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