[geeks] Shell quoting question...

[Dave Fischer]

velociraptor at gmail.com writes:

>sh /export/home/nmiller/script "profile

>I tried escaping the %, e.g. "profile\%20name", but that just resulted
>in a line in my cron log with my script's exit code for "bad
>argument".

>I suppose I could work around this by doing a transformation in the
>script to check the directory name, but today's my last day, and I
>still have a handful of other things to beat into submission before
>5:30pm.

The cheap workaround would be a one-line shell script with the
"profile%20name" argument in it.

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