passing arguments to system command

[Joan Sanchez]

It also depends on how you are referring to those arguments within your 
script. Maybe you are using $@ (without quotes) when you need to use 
"$@" (with quotes).

Joan Sanchez
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On 10/3/2017 4:47 PM, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
> Ok, so what I did was create two variables.....one is   aa(1,*)="\""
> the other is  ab(30,allup)=cli(2)     (which cli(2) is a 30,allup field
> from our client file)
> I then passed to msgbox      "value is"<{aa{ab{aa        which properly
> returned     "CLIENT NAME"    with the quotes...........
> However, when I pass this same to my shell script, it no longer errors, but
> it only shows the value UP UNTIL the first space it encounters.........so
> in this example, it just returns  CLIENT
> I'm wanting to take the client name variable and have it included in the
> subject line of an email that I send  @done  in processing.....everything
> else works great except this part....
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> Another thing to keep in mind is which quotes you need.  You only need
>> double quotes if 1) the argument will need shell variable interpolation, or
>> 2) the string will contain other single quotes, such as apostrophes.
>>
>> If you can get away with single quotes, it becomes simpler still, since you
>> won't need to escape them.
>>
>> As far as not working, I'd stuff everything into a variable, then msgbox it
>> so you can see exactly what is being passed to system().
>>
>> m->
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 01:45:02PM -0400, scooter6 at gmail.com thus spoke:
>>>     Hmm..not how I would have ever thought to do that... currently I pass
>>>     Â  <aa<ab<ac, etc......I would have assumed then I would have neededÂ
>>>     <"\"{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
>>>     <[1]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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