Lengthy string in script getting truncated

[Vishal Biyani]

I am calling a java program from a shell script.One the arguments to this program is a lengthy string. If i pass directly like this:
/opt/java/bin/javac Program "|HEADER|JAR933|vishal.biyani@rediffmail.com|290001|OL0006528|WIN4015444|SHAFT_FORGING|1.0|Baan EDM|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|290001|WIN4015444|00||||2|SHAFT FORGING|9|AXELSMIDE|3|ACHSE SCHMIEDESTÜCK|4|ARBRE FORGÉ|f|AKSELITAOS|||||||||||||||||||||||No||Approved|41.0|Mechanic|Yes|pc||WIN4015444|EL20|Purchased|Metric||0|20051120|||||Released||||||||||||||||No||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"
this works properly but if i assign this string to a variable (say data) and then pass the data variable as argument to program then it gets truncated like:
/opt/java/bin/javac Program $data

What is the problem and how to solve it?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Vishal,

As far as I remember you can not transmit more than 256 characters in one command line argument. I recall hearing that this was a feature of the POSIX shell.

I think you are going to need to break this up into a few pieces none of which can be greater than 256 bytes.

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[Vishal Biyani]

Ok, now can you please tell me if i have a file in which this data of string is written and i want to pass this as an argument to java class through shell script, how do i do it?

[john korterman]

Hi,

please show us how you got
$data

Did you embed the variable in single quotes? That could explain why it is not expanded. If that is the case, try using double quotes ""



regards,
John K.