"Simonsen, Larry" wrote:
>
> I tried this and received the error
> :xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'kill 'head -n 1 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid''"
> **** AMBIGUOUS USE OF QUOTES WITHIN INFO STRING (CERR 13)

You used the wrong quotes around the head statement.  Look closely below, and
you'll see that these are backtics:

> :xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'kill `head -n 1 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid`'"

An alternative less visually confusing syntax would be:

:xeq sh.hpbin.sys '-c "kill $(head -n 1 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid)"'
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