26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
9:30 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:22:55AM -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
file: script1.sh #! /bin/bash script2.sh $1
There's your mistake. It should be script2.sh "$1" Otherwise $1 is evaluated and passed through as potentially multiple parameters to script2.sh
For example: $ cat x #!/bin/sh ./y "$1"
$ cat y #!/bin/sh echo "$1"
$ ./x "hello\ there" hello\ there
The problem isn't the shell doing bad things, it's you not understanding how shell variable expansion is done when calling external commands.
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rgds
Stephen