Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello guys,

here is my problem:

I got a shell script which is called by an external piece of software, the external software is not under my control. The software passes data as an argument to my script like

Code:

./bla.sh 'service;1234567890;ok;hostname;some text here'

I need to pass the data to another piece of software but I need to manipulate the string first.

I need the data to change to this:

service;1234567890;ok;hostname;"some text here"

I tried various seds, IFS & reads but nothing worked...


Can someone of you guys help please?


Greeting
Snoogie

Code:

OLDIFS="$IFS" ; IFS=";"
        set -- $1
IFS="$OLDIFS"

echo "$1;$2;$3;$4;\"$5\""

Here is another way

Code:

#!/bin/bash

out=`echo $1 |awk -F";" '{printf("%s;%s;%s;%s;\"%s\"\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5)}'`
echo "$out"

Works perfectly, thanks guys!