Hi all,
I have a bit strange issue. I have a shell script that fetch some information to shell variables and calls a C program with those shell variable.(14 variables passed).
However when this executes I miss one or two parameter values in the C program. (but not all). When I printf the values one by one argv[x] displays all the values. However even this If I use the following it prints with some missing Charaters.
printf("1:%s \n",argv[1]);
printf("2:%s \n",argv[2]);
printf("3:%s \n",argv[3]);
printf("4:%s \n",argv[4]);
printf("5:%s \n",argv[5]);
printf("6:%s \n",argv[6]);
printf("7:%s \n",argv[7]);
printf("8:%s \n",argv[8]);
printf("9:%s \n",argv[9]);

the output looks like this.

1:abcde
:abcde@domain.lk
:192.168.1.249
4:2004-2-29 22:05:46
:abcde@yahoo.com
6:0
7:0
:test-xp-01
9:email.content
0:1
11:0
12:0
13:1
14:email.envelope

With missing printf characters. 2,3,5,8 and character 1 of 10 is missing.
After I assign the parameter to C variables with strcpy() and the printf returns the following.

1:abcde
2:
:192.168.1.249
4:2004-2-29 22:05:46
:abcde@yahoo.com
6:0
7:0
:test-xp-01
9:email.content
0:1
11:0
12:0
13:1
14:email.envelope

Here I am using Bash shell on a Redhat 9.0. I tried with different version but the results same. However when I call the C program directly it outputs correctly. The problem exists only with Shell script and C integration.
I tried gcc versions gcc version 2.96 and gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7).

Please help me. I am stuck. Sorry for the long description. Thanks

Post the program and the shell script.

here's my shellscript (I've used '\' so that the listing won't be too wide to see here).
My program name is "shelltest".



Does your program process this OK? If so, what's your shell script look like?
If not, what's your program look like?

Dave

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Thanks for the reply. Yes Of cause it process fine when I call the C program through Shellscript with real values as you did. But if I replace those values with shell variable the problem occurs.

Well, maybe someone can help you, but I can't magically see what you are trying to do. Sorry.

Dave