Re: [hylafax-users] Having problems running sendfax from a bash script.

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Warren wrote:

> First, I'm new to writing bash scripts.
>
> I have a string name "commandline" that contains the following:
>
> sendfax -f jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jwarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -n -D 
> -i 010000TESTFL -c "This is a test fax" -d Parmacist@13106421032 
> /var/spool/hylafax/windows/jobs/QueuedT/00TESTFL.pdf
>
> If I do the following in a bash script it fails with "is: Can not open 
> file"
>
> $command
>
> If I remove the  (  -c "This is a test fax"  )  or change it to  (  -c 
> "test"   ) it works.
>
> If I execute the same line outside of the script it also works.
>
> Is the Bash script taking out the "'s and if so how do I keep it from 
> doing this?


Sounds to me like you're creating some kind of COMMANDLINE variable and 
then exec'ing that variable later.  In that case you'll need to make 
sure to escape your quotes so that they don't get eaten by the first 
parsing when it's placed into $COMMANDLINE...

COMMANDLINE="sendfax -c\"This is a test fax\" -d Pharmacist@13106421032"

Lee.


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