Execute shell with space-contained arg in Linux

[Zee Ho]

Ranchers, When I execute the java program (described in a shell)in linux machine with white-space contained argument, the prgram received more arguments than expect, but I have already enclose the argument using double quote.

I use the command like this

deploy.sh "argu ment 1".

but the program prompt it receive 3 argument than 1.

in deploy.sh

#!/bin/sh

. ./set_classpath.sh

date >> ../../logs/cif_deployment.out
date >> ../../logs/cif_deployment.err

java -Xbootclasspath/p:lib/xalan-2.6.0.jar:lib/xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar:lib/xml-apis-1.2.01.jar -Dorg.xml.sax.parser=org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderAdapter -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j_deployment.properties -classpath $CIF_CLASSPATH com.core.cif.deploy.DeployTool $1 $2 $3 >> ../../logs/cif_deployment.out 2>> ../../logs/cif_deployment.err

is there any mistake I make?

[Wirianto Djunaidi]

The problem is caused by the shell script stripped off your double quote.
To make it work you have to put the double quote inside your script when calling the java class.

  
java com.core.cif.deploy.DeployTool "$*"

The weakness of above script is it will wrapped all your arguments into one,
or you can code it like before

  
java com.core.cif.deploy.DeployTool "$1" "$2" "$3"

If you are VERY SURE there will always be 3 arguments, because is you do not pass enough arguments..the double quotes in the above script will pass empty string to your java program as argument...so your java program will always have 3 arguments.

I hope that make sense.

[Zee Ho]

great, thx very much.

It is really a hard time for me to work on linux.