George Sinclair wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to run mminfo command inside a bourne shell script as:

date=$1
mminfo -s server -q 'pool=poolname,savetime>=$date'

the value is being passed in as an argument. How can I do this? mminfo
complains every time about invalid value specified for `sscreate'. I've
tried everything I can think of ... all kinds of double and single quote
combinations and escapes and nothing works.

You definitely need double quotes in the mminfo command, since single
quotes don't allow any variable expansion.

You probably also need to quote the $1 in the line:
date="$1".

When you call the script you will need to quote the parameter, e.g.
myscript "20 Oct 2004"

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