Hi I have this problem where message is passed over to unix as variables after the script for the script to process using shift command. Problem is some variables are too long and it seems to truncate the closing double quote ("). eg /usr/local/testscript 11.81.8.3 N/A ServiceCenter TWS tec WR123445 Application s "Open Systems" batch C342QLW CF04289AAAAAAADI CRITICAL "Oct 16 17:52:22 2004" "Job CF04289AAAAAAADI.CRMSQLW failed, continuing with sched Any one can suggest how to terminate with the double(") as it seems like it has reached the maximum key entry allowed ? (Shortening of the message is not accepted as the message can be even longer than this eg.) Would appreciate if some one can show me there is another way of passing variable other than this. Thanks

I put your string into a data file I called junk.data. I then wrote a short ksh script called junk.ksh as follows: #!/bin/ksh for value in $* do print $1 shift done I then ran this command: ./junk.sh $(cat junk.data) My output looked like this: 11.81.8.3 N/A ServiceCenter TWS tec WR123445 Applications "Open Systems" batch C342QLW CF04289AAAAAAADI CRITICAL "Oct 16 17:52:22 2004" "Job CF04289AAAAAAADI.CRMSQLW failed, continuing with sched" Not sure where you wanted the terminating " so I put it at the end of the string. Anyway, this script shows that your entire string is being read. Need a little more detail and perhaps someone can figure out your problem.