On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 11:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, > I'm in the process of trying to rationalise a shell script (ksh) which > generates several graphs. > I took a working (if wordy) series of 4 graphs and created shell variables > for each common line, then concatenated the variables to produce the > actual line to execute. > It breaks whenever it encounters a line of text that contains a space, > even if I quote the string, it still breaks. > I've checked the output, and the only thing I can see that's different is > the way the double quotes are handled. > > There appears to be some weird parseing that I cannot figure out.
Am I right is guessing that you start the process like this: $ script "arg with spaces" arg2 arg3 or something similar? You might find that one set of " is being taken out by the shell itself, and not passing them on further to rrdtool to use as the title. Try mixing and matching \" as well. eg $ script "\"arg with spaces\"" arg2 arg3 Some examples of what you've tried would be useful though as its a bit hard to guess :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To love is good, love being difficult. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
