Great.  Thanks.

The eval worked.  I'll try the compound option as well.

May need to run this with ksh88, so I might not be able to use compound vars. (Apologies. Should have mentioned earlier.)

Cheers, Tom
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On 10/14/2013 6:48 AM, Danny Weldon wrote:
These both worked for me:

   eval ./script.ksh -n 3 "${PARMS}";
   eval ./script.ksh -n 4 $PARMS;

On 14 October 2013 13:25, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote:
On 14 October 2013 04:59, Tom K. <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Gents,

When trying to pass a variable of paramters to another script, to reduce
amount of code:

OPT1="This is my Option";
OPT2="/folder/file";
PARMS="-u \"me\" -J \"$OPT1\" -g \"$OPT2\"";

then passing it in like this:

./script.ksh -n 1 "$PARMS";

I get this:

UARG=| "me" -J "This is my Option" -g "/folder/file"|

Or I get this:

UARG=|"me"|

when I try to pass it in this manner:

./script.ksh -n 2 ${PARMS};

Looks like it manages to grab a part of what's in $PARMS but not the rest of
the string.  Was curious about this behaviour and if KSH had any way to make
this work?  Full code is below.  Tried a couple of variations including '
but no luck.  This is an older KSH93 version.  I don't have the option of
changing this version unfortunately.
# echo ${.sh.version}
Version M 93t+ 2009-05-01
Does read -C work in ksh93t+?

if it does then you could pass complex data via compound variables,
i.e. print compound variable via print -C and read the data into
another shell instance through read -C.

Ced
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