Re: qsh rexec issue

["tim.dclinc@xxxxxxxxx" <tim.dclinc@xxxxxxxxx>]

    makes sense...thanks Scott...

On 6/19/2012 5:32 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> On both Unix and DOS, parameters are separated by a space.  If you want
> to include spaces in your parameter, you need to put them in quotes...
>    the problem is, the quotes are removed, so when you pass a parameter
> to one program (rexec) that in turn will pass it to another program
> (Windows command prompt) it's going to go through this quoting process
> twice.
>
> In your example, you're doing (pathname and other options removed for
> brevity):
>
>     rexec host test.bat "a bcdefghiz.com"
>
> What will QShell pass to the "rexec" program?  It'll pass 3 parameters:
>
> program = rexec
> parm 1 = host
> parm 2 = test.bat
> parm 3 = a bcdefghiz.com
>
> That works as you expected...  the "a bcdefghiz.com" got passed as a
> single parameter because you put quotes around them.  But, the quotes
> were removed once the data was grouped into a single parameter.
>
> Now rexec passes the command string to Windows.  On Windows it looks
> like this:
>
> test.bat a bcdefghiz.com
>
> Windows then takes this command string and breaks it up based on the
> spaces, so you now have this:
>
> program = test.bat
> parm1 = a
> parm2 = bcdefghiz.com
>
> When test.bat is asked to print it's first parameter (that's what %1
> means) the first parameter is just "a".
>
> One workaround in QShell is to put the double quotes inside single
> quotes like this:
>
>     rexec host test.bat '"a bcdefghiz.com"'
>
> Now when QShell calls rexec, it looks like this:
>
> program = rexec
> parm1 = host
> parm2 = test.bat
> parm3 = "a bcdefghiz.com"
>
> Qshell removed the outer quotes, but left the inner quotes (the single
> quotes) intact.  Now when rexec passes this string to Windows it looks
> like this:
>
> program = test.bat
> parm1 = host
> parm2 = a bcdefghiz.com
>
> Make sense?
>
> On 6/19/2012 3:55 PM, tim.dclinc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > im issuing the following command via qsh
> >
> > rexec -u usertim -p timpass 10.0.0.76
> > C:\\PROGRA~1\\TRENDM~1\\CLIENT~1\\test.bat "a bcdefghiz.com"
> >
> > in the bat pgm i echo %1 and get the following:
> > a
> >
> > It seems to be cutting off after the "a" rather then taking the entire
> > string i enclosed in double quotes.
> >
> > Any idea why this is doing this?