<div dir="ltr"><div>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...</div><div>I'll give this a try....thanks Mark</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">aa = "/path/to/command" < "arg1" < "\"arg2 with spaces\"" < "arg3"<br>
system aa<br>
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mark-><br>
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:56:39PM -0400, scooter6--- via Filepro-list thus spoke:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> I have a process that triggers an email at the end and I pass several<br>
> variables to my shell script<br>
> All of these parameters are short and contain  no spaces....<br>
><br>
> How do I character escape a string I want to send my script that would have<br>
> spaces in it?<br>
> Meaning how would I send literal " (quotes) around a longer variable that<br>
> has spaces in it?<br>
><br>
><br>
> thanks<br>
><br>
> Scott<br>
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