passing arguments to system command

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Hmm..not how I would have ever thought to do that... currently I pass
<aa<ab<ac, etc......I would have assumed then I would have needed
<"\"{ac{"\"    ?  But that didn't work...
I'll give this a try....thanks Mark

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> aa = "/path/to/command" < "arg1" < "\"arg2 with spaces\"" < "arg3"
> system aa
>
> mark->
>
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:56:39PM -0400, scooter6--- via Filepro-list
> thus spoke:
> > I have a process that triggers an email at the end and I pass several
> > variables to my shell script
> > All of these parameters are short and contain  no spaces....
> >
> > How do I character escape a string I want to send my script that would
> have
> > spaces in it?
> > Meaning how would I send literal " (quotes) around a longer variable that
> > has spaces in it?
> >
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Scott
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