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Old 12-07-2018
Passing parameters with spaces between scripts
I have 2 scripts. test.sh, which calls submit2.sh. One of the parameters contains space and is quoted.


Code:
[test.sh]
((((./submit2.sh Group_1_2_AMS_DAILY_CORE_GRP03 AMS AMS_D 'DAILY REPORT PROCEDURES'; echo $?>&3) | tee 1.log >&4)3>&1) | (read xs; exit $xs)) 4>&1


[submit2.sh]
echo parm 1 = $1
 echo parm 2 = $2
 echo parm 3 = $3
 echo parm 4 = $4
 echo parm 5 = $5
 echo output ....
 exit 42


I ran:
$ bash test.sh ; echo $?


I would expect:
parm 1 = Group_1_2_AMS_DAILY_CORE_GRP03
 parm 2 = AMS
 parm 3 = AMS_D
 parm 4 = DAILY REPORT PROCEDURES
 parm 5 =
 output ....
 42


I works fine in Bash shell, but not in ksh. Ksh returns
parm 1 = Group_1_2_AMS_DAILY_CORE_GRP03
parm 2 = AMS
parm 3 = AMS_D
parm 4 = DAILY
parm 5 = REPORT
output ....
42

The 4th parameter is split by word, not by the quoted text. Why is this happening? Any settiings on the Unix level?
# 2  
Old 12-07-2018
It works fine in both bash and ksh on my system, but -- I suspect test.sh is being run in neither bash nor ksh. You've left that to system defaults and hoped. Which means on some systems you might get anything from a 1977-era mouldy old Bourne, to C shell.

Add #!/bin/sh as the first line to both scripts and try again.
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