Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script to sent email when error occur in the process. The scripts use a config file where I dot . ./config.cfg into the environment. However, when I export the message below into the environment and echo $msg, it shows only "THERE" the first word in the sentence.

export msg=THERE WERE XX RECORDS IN ERROR TABLE,AAAA, WHEN LOADING THE BBBB TABLE WITH EXTRACT FROM CCCC INTO TERADATA TABLES FOR MERCHANDISE PLANNING, DATABASE DDDD.

XX - number of records
AAAA - error table name
BBBB - MP table, which has problem during the loading.
CCCC - system name, which provides the extract
DDDD- database name

What is the best handle the message and still allow my script to do subtitution XX, AAAA, BBBB .. etc?

Don't forget that you need double quotes around the string you are putting into the variable $msg.

Code:

export msg="THERE WERE XX RECORDS IN ERROR TABLE,AAAA, WHEN LOADING THE BBBB TABLE WITH EXTRACT FROM CCCC INTO TERADATA TABLES FOR MERCHANDISE PLANNING, DATABASE DDDD."

Also, if AAAA XX and BBBB are variables, you need to reference them as $AAAA $XX and $BBBB.

Thanks a lot that worked......