<quote who="Don Kibbey">
> I'm attempting to make use of a program called "mpack" which requires
> some command line arguments to be quoted.  While doing this, I'm
> getting some over quoting and things are not worked as they should.
> Is there another character or technique (aside from writing the
> command out as a script and executing it that way) which can be used
> to get around this?
>
> Here's and example of the command I would like to use.
>
> mpack -s "this is the subject" -d body.file attachement.pdf emailname
>
> To execute this I have to wrap it in quotes like this.
>
> SH -c "mpack -s "this is the subject" -d body.file attachement.pdf
> emailname"

Do it this way:

sh -c \mpack -s "this is the subject" -d body.file attachment.pdf\

or use ' instead of \ *SQ vs BSL*

HTH

Karl

>
> This of course makes a mess...
>
> Any ideas?  Or am I just being goofy today?
> -------
> u2-users mailing list
> u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
>


-- 
karl

     _/  _/      _/      _/_/_/       ____________   __o
    _/ _/       _/      _/    _/     ____________  _-\<._
   _/_/        _/      _/_/_/                     (_)/ (_)
  _/ _/       _/      _/           ......................
 _/   _/ arl _/_/_/  _/ earson    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

--
IT Director, ATS Industrial Supply, Inc.
http://www.atsindustrial.com
Toll-free: 800-789-9300 x29
Direct2Desk: 801-978-4429
Facsimile: 801-972-3888
--
-------
u2-users mailing list
u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Reply via email to