Double quotes not getting appended to the file

[Kadavan]

Hi All

I am running a scripts to append the following line to a file

postschedulecmd "rm -f /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmsched.pru; touch /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log; chmod 666 /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log"

but while runnig the following script

ssh -n ${HOST} echo 'postschedulecmd \ "rm -f /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmsched.pru; touch /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log; chmod 666 /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log" >> /tmp/shaik'

the double quates are not getting updated in the file

Can you please help me in this

Regards
-Binu

[klb]

Inside your echo ' ... ', the double quotes are being interpreted by the local shell ( I think ) or the remote shell.

To prevent that, escape them with a backslash as so...

echo 'posetschedulecmd \"rm -f ... \" >> /tmp/shaik'

So, if you want a double quote to be echoed, place a single backslash in front of it.

-klb

[Wilfred Chau_1]

look like you have an extra space after the first back slash, and missing the back slash for the second quote.


now try again.
ssh -n ${HOST} echo 'postschedulecmd \"rm -f /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmsched.pru; touch /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log; chmod 666 /opt/hd/sa/tmp/dsmerror.log\" >> /tmp/shaik'

[klb]

I figured the first \ was to continue on a new line, not intended as an escape.