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From: leo@philmds.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Command line argument in Cshell script
Keywords: command line argument, Cshell, string, spaces
Message-ID: <496@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 14:16:29 GMT
References: <497@slb-sdr.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (L.J.M. de Wit)
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In article <497@slb-sdr.UUCP> saito@slb-sdr.UUCP (Naoki Saito) writes:
>	Hello, I wrote a C-shell script to automate the task as follows:
     [stuff deleted]   
>plot3d z=$TEMP -P $argv[2-] | sunplot
     [stuff deleted]   
>	
>	This works fine unless I use command line arguments of strings which
>contain space, e.g.,
     [stuff deleted]   

	I'm not a csh expert (use a Bourne sh variant myself) but I think I can
see the problem. When you start the script, you correctly quote the string
argument that contains spaces. So the script gets it in its $argv[2]. However,
when you execute the plot3d command from within the script, you do not quote
it. Why not? I think the csh now offers the words of the strings as separate
arguments to plot3d. Quote them too (in sh you would need "" so that the 
value of $argv[2] is used).

	Leo.