Shell script problem

[Alex Lavrov]

Hello,

I have a little problem in my script.
I'm trying to run omnidb command with next parameters:
-filesystem serv1:/opt/alex 'serv1:/opt/alex'

for some reason, when
x="serv1:/opt/alex"
y="'serv1:/opt/alex'"

or

x="serv1:/opt/alex 'serv1:/opt/alex'"

it does not run properly.
in debug mode (sh -x), I see the command that it's tryng to run and it looks correct, even if I copy&paste it to the command line it works, but from the script itself it does not.
The proble I think is in '. But every thing I tried to do with " or sed or whatever does not fix the problem ...

any ideas?

thanx.

[Steven E. Protter]

omniback has logs, there might be an error.

What shell are you using?

omniback can be scripted, but lots of people think the GUI does just fine (Bill Hassell: read sysadmins don't use GUI's).

Maybe post the sh -x output?

SEP

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi.

I did not test it but i think this will elininate the ' in yu vars.

y=`echo $y | sed s'/\'//'`
x=`echo $x | sed s'/\'//'`

Gideon

[john korterman]

Hi,
please show us the lines used in the script.

regards,
John K.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
I have had some problems with those ' in the label too. Here is one solution I have used:

store the label in a variable without any '

in the command line, fubstitute the label with

$(echo "'"$label"'")

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

why do you use no quotes for the first parameter and quotes for the second one. Could you post the command, you try to run and any error messages?

greetings,

Michael

[Alex Lavrov]

Well, looks like it works without quotes too .... strange, I thought I tried it. but probably not.

thanx all for your replies,
Merry Christmas or Hanukah! :)