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Old 09-19-2005
Question about breaking up a variable
I've got a variable that I define based on the contents of a field in a pipe delimited text file (read into $REC) as follows:
TEMP=${echo $REC|awk '-F|' '{print $1}')

echo $TEMP gives me:
"$X1" "$X2" "$X3"

How can I then split this up to pass each of the quote delimited parameters into another script? I need to retain the double quotes and there can be a variable number of space delimited parameters in $TEMP. For example, I want to be able to run:
test_script.sh "$X1" "$X2" "$X3"

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 09-19-2005
Try this:

Code:
eval yourscript `echo $TEMP`

# 3  
Old 09-19-2005
Excellent! Works like a charm...thanks.
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