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bb will not run from a shell script (script problem??)

list Frank Flynn
Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:15:39 -0700
Message-Id: <user-8f4ad2af8e24@xymon.invalid>

OK well I found a work around,

If I break it into two in the script and pass the data to bb through  stdin this will work
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MYCMD="$BB $BBDISP -"

echo "status $MACHINE.Bd@ $STATUS `date` local web check" | $MYCMD
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This works for me - but is there a better way?

Thanks,
Frank

On Sep 5, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Frank Flynn wrote:
I have a simple shell script which I want to use as a client  plugin.  In the script I create the STATUS and some other messages  that I want to use and assemble them into a CMD.

But bb will not accept this from the script - but the command is  perfect - I can say that because to debug I echo the command and if  I copy and paste it works.  But if have the script run the $CMD it  fails.

In the script:
MYCMD="$BB $BBDISP \"status $MACHINE.BWEB $STATUS `date` WEB OK\""

echo $MYCMD

$MYCMD

I run it from inside of bbcmd and I get:

sh-3.1$ ext/webCheck.sh
/home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 10.1.90.21 "status  web2,sc1,boredat,net.BWEB green Wed Sep 5 14:55:08 PDT 2007 WEB OK"
Hobbit version 4.2.0
Usage: /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb [--debug] [--proxy=http:// ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA
  RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL
  DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin
sh-3.1$

And if I copy and paste the first line - it works, the server sees  it and everything is fine.