Passing a string to another script 2

[grepper]

I have written an Expect script to go out and run a command on another host which works great. From the command line I call it by

./myExpect <hostname> <myuid> <mypass> <command>

<command> has to be in double quotes if it is more than one word i.e. &quot;touch junk&quot; for Expect to work

The problem is I am writting a ksh script to call myExpect so I can loop the hostname to run a command on many servers.
The script looks like this pior to me adding the while loop:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

hostid=$1
userid=$2
passwd=$3
command=$4
./myExpect $hostid $userid $passwd $command

and is called by

./myScript <hostname> <myuid> <mypass> <command>
where <command> is in double quotes i.e. &quot;touch junk&quot;

When myScript passes $command to myExpect it only passes the first command. So instead on passing &quot;touch junk&quot; it only passes &quot;touch.&quot;

Do you guys know what can fix this? Many thanks........

 

[Capoerista]

Hi grepper,

Do an echo $5 and you should find the rest of your touch command. Try the following in your script

./myExpect $hostid $userid $passwd &quot;$command&quot;

I don't think ksh 'remembers' that the contents of $command was passed as a quoted string. So if you subsequently use it in your script it will be treated as multiple parameters.


Ade

 

[Annihilannic]

Korn shell does 'remember' actually. You should be able to just use:

[tt]#!/usr/bin/ksh

./myExpect &quot;$@&quot;[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[grepper]

Thanks, &quot;$command&quot; passes the entire command. Everything is working great....Thanks for you help!