Re: [Condor-users] Parsing quoted arguments in Condor

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei,

Are your jobs running on windows or are they running on unix?

When you say that you want to execute the command

exec.py -a a_value -b "b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value"

are you expecting this:

Arguments #1
arg1: -a
arg2: a_value
arg3: -b
arg4: "b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value"

or are you expecting this:

Arguments #2
arg1: -a
arg2: a_value
arg3: -b
arg4: b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value


#1 above should result from this:
arguments = "-a a_value -b '"b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value"'"

and #2 above should result from this:
arguments = "-a a_value -b 'b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value'"

--Dan

Wei Wang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We'd like to write a job description file for a Python script which 
> takes arguments in the following way: exec.py -a a_value -b "b_mod 
> -b_op1 b_op1_value". We call the quoted part as a module. And the 
> module here has an option "-b_op1" and its value is "b_op1_value".
>
> So the description file is:
> ......
> executable = exec.py
> arguments = "-a a_value -b '"b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value'""
> ......
>
> This is equal to executing the following command: exec.py -a a_value 
> -b "b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value". However, the option "-b_opt1" is 
> treated as the option to exec.py, instead of the module "b_mod".
>
> But if I run "exec.py -a a_value -b "b_mod -b_op1 b_op1_value"" in the 
> command mode, our script works fine.
>
> Somehow, in the Shell created by Condor, the double-quote is not 
> parsed correctly --- they are not being matched.
>
> Does anyone know why?
>
>
> --- Wei
> --
> Wei Wang
> Department of Physics
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
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