I do not have unison, but I did test this with another
program and mine works fine. Try using dos2unix on
that file. There may be some hidden characters in the
file causing it to fail. Also, try using the full
path to unison. BTW, my bash version RPM is 2.05a-13.
Thanks.
--- "Ryan D. Egeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried many combinations to pass single quotes
> to a command in bash,
> but I just can't get it to work. Basically, I want
> to run the following
> script (abbreviated for simplicity):
>
> script.sh dir1 dir2
>
> #!/bin/bash
> UNISON="unison $1"
> RUN="$UNISON -ignore 'Path $2'"
> ${RUN}
>
> Bash seems to be stripping out the single quotes in
> the 'Path $3' bit, so
> instead of running the following:
>
> unison dir1 -ignore 'Path dir2' (1)
>
> it seems to be (?) running this instead:
>
> unison dir1 -ignore Path dir2 (2)
>
> causing an error.
>
> If I include an "echo ${RUN}" in the script, I get
> output exactly as in
> (1). If I type in (1) at the command prompt
> directly, rather than using
> the script, everything works just fine, so I'd like
> to make bash run
> command (1) just as it does when typed in.
>
> Any suggestions? I've spent hours on this.
>
> Ryan
>
>
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