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  3. February 2009

Re: Qshell scripts and parameters


hi Jim,

The manual I'm learning from does say that single quotes are "STRONG" and
double quotes are "WEAK" but does not explain much about what the difference
is.

In a nutshell: Double quotes still allow variables (like your $1 $2, etc) inside the string. Single quotes would actually print the characters $ and 1, rather than substitute the value of the variable.


I appreciate the added code Scott. Can I use a different status to know
which part of the script failed? Will I be able to tell in CL (same message
different code?)

You can use any code from 0 - 255. By convention, 0 means "success" and any non-zero value means "fail". Feel free to use different non-zero values to denote different errors.


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