[geeks] Shell quoting question...

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
" 
" []
" 
" In my crontab entry:
" 
" 00 05 * * * /export/home/nmiller/script "profile%20name" > /dev/null 2>&1
" 
" If I issue the above in an interactive shell, it works fine.
" 
" But in the cron log I see this:
" 
" 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".

what happens with "profile name" or "profile\ name"?  or
profile\%20name without quotes?

a quick test:
$ print "profile\%20name" profile\%20name
profile\%20name profile%20name
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