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I am trying to use 'getopt' to read a quoted string as options for a
program. It works fine when I try it from a shell (csh) but when I try
running it from a script using 'exec' it does not accept the entire the
entire quoted string as the option.

e.g. ( test is the program name)
% test -f "-g -o 5" in.txt
( getopt works fine. The string "-g -o 5" is read correctly into
optargs. Note that I have to use '-' (dash) in the string as a
requirement of the program itself.)

However when I try it from the script file:

exec test -f "\"-g -o 5\"" in.txt

The getopt only recognizes "-g as the option for -f instead of "-g -o
5".

I would appreciate any help in this area..

- Sridhar.


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