Korn Shell Q

I have a shell script called exfail.sh which checks for potential extent failures on a database. The script accepts a couple of command line switches.

exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST

Basically this says run the exfail.sh script against the "TEST" instance,
(-p) page people if there are problems, (-g) send the page/email to everyone
in the "dba" and "apps" group.

This works just fine. I have another script which rolls through the oratab file and calls exfail.sh against every database on the host.

check_all_exfail.sh

The scripts sources in some environment files which set up the command line parameters for the host or database.

EXFAIL_OPTIONS="-p -g \"dba apps\""

When I run "set -x" in the script I can see the call from check_all_exfail.sh to exfail.sh is correct just like the first example.

exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST
exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" DEV
exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" FOO

However the exfail.sh script parses the command line in an entirely different manner. The -g switch picks up

"dba

as the $OPTARG and not

dba apps

thus

apps"

becomes the $1 argument instead of the correct

TEST I know I need to tell the check_all_exfail.sh file to parse the line twice
(I think) bit I can't remember the command off had to do this. Anyone have
some ideas for me to try?

Thanks,
Ethan

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