Hello Matt, On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:51:58PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > I've written a little shell that generates this string and calls it > $CMD: (sorry no line breaks): > > multi-gnome-terminal --add-window -T --tname==.teaching/ --tcommand="mutt -f =.teaching/" -T --tname==.moin/ --tcommand="mutt -f =.moin/" -T --tname==.mycroft --tcommand="mutt -f =.mycroft" -T --tname==.evilbitch --tcommand="mutt -f =.evilbitch" -T --tname==.bibliography/ --tcommand="mutt -f =.bibliography/" -T --tname==.dufferin-grove --tcommand="mutt -f =.dufferin-grove" -T --tname=+.Carfreeday --tcommand="mutt -f +.Carfreeday" -T --tname=+.IN_xml_openoffice --tcommand="mutt -f +.IN_xml_openoffice" -T --tname=+.IN_Pessimism --tcommand="mutt -f +.IN_Pessimism" You must really *love* mutt! ;-) Ah well, so do I. :) > when I type this command in manualy, it executes perfectly. But when > I try to execute this line in the script: > $CMD > > I get an error > "Error on option -f: unknown option. Run 'multi-gnome-terminal > --help' to see a full list of available command line options." > > so it looks to as though the quotation marks that are working fine > when entered directly are somehow interfered with in the $CMD version. > Probalby this is obvious but I don't see it -- any hints? I can't give an instant solution, but some hints are no problem. :) I don't have that multi-gnome-thingy here, so it's hard to give exact help. I wonder which '-f' gives the problem here: the first or the second. Try to get it working for just one mutt session and work your way from there: multi-gnome-terminal --add-window -T --tname==.teaching/ --tcommand="mutt -f =.teaching/" If that doesn't work, try escaping the quotes: multi-gnome-terminal --add-window -T --tname==.teaching/ --tcommand=\"mutt -f =.teaching/\" The complete line should probably be something like: CMD="multi-gnome-terminal blabla" so enclosed in quotes itself. If that doesn't work try single quotes. CMD='multi-gnome-terminal blabla' Here are some simpler commands with quotes that may or may not give a clue: $ echo "Hello" Hello $ CMD=echo "Hello" bash: Hello: command not found $ CMD="echo "Hello""; $CMD Hello $ CMD="echo \"Hello\""; $CMD "Hello" $ CMD="echo \"Hello\""; "$CMD" bash: echo "Hello": command not found HTH, -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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