On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Eric \Shubes\ wrote: > Here's a good Friday afternoon exercise for you script animals out there. > For example, > $ arglist="parm1 \"this is parm2\" parm3" > $ command $arglist > > command receives: > $?=5 $1=parm1, $2="this, $3=is $4=parm2" $5=parm3 > > What I want command to receive is: > $?=3 $1=parm1, $2=this is parm2, $3=parm3 Not sure if its the same, but the below worked. --------------- #!/bin/sh ls "${1}" ls "${2}" ls "${3}" ------------------- Invoked as: scriptname.sh "this is" a param resulted in: ls: this is: No such file or directory ls: a: No such file or directory ls: param: No such file or directory David -- "I find your lack of faith disturbing." --Darth Vader --- 14:32:01 up 10 days, 6:16, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss