On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:41:34 +0800, Jon Priddey wrote:
>Any help much appreciated:
>
>I've got some code which integrates with RCS.
>It creates a Process with:
>Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ci -m\"blah blah blah\" filename",env);
>
>where "blah blah blah" is the description of the check-in.
>Enclosed in double quotes (") to group the words as a single parameter.
>
>My 116v2 seems to have problems with this, though it works fine on a Sun
>JDK.
>
>ci gets the args as:
>1/ -m"blah
>2/ blah
>3/ blah"
>4/ filename.
I think you have the quotes in the wrong spot. On the command line
you need to type:
ci "-mblah blah blah" foo.c
Doing
ci -m"blah blah blah" foo.c
does not work since the " is in the middle of an argument word. (Standard
shell parsing, which is what happens when you use the exec() method.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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