[vdr] Re: OT: Shell script

[Thomas Keil <tk@commedia-group.com>]

Martin Hoffmann schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>does anyone know how to call a shell script from another and give a filename 
>as paramterer just _exactly_ as it is ? Without bash interpreting anything ?
>
>I have this problem, that certain filenames (from VDR) are changed when giving 
>them as argument to a second script ! Especially ' characters, which are also 
>ommited when using echo, are interpreted, or dropped it seems !
>
>Example:
>#!/bin/sh
># Variable $SRC has the complete string (including) "bad" characters
>echo $SRC >out1.txt
>script2 $SRC
>
>#!/bin/sh
># this is script2 !
>echo $1 > out2.txt
>
>out1.txt and out2.txt differ ! The second one has the characters stripped off 
>already :-(
>
>Also script2 "$SRC" did not change anything :-(
>
>btw: echo $SRC (to the console) gives same output as out2.txt is ! But 
>out1.txt is different !
>
>Anyone ?
>
>Martin
>
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Maybe you should have a look at
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/quoting.html
probably the answer lies there.

I'm also trying to figure something out....