Instead of escaping the interior quotes with \, double them instead:

:print shtest
xeq sh.hpbin.sys '-c "/BIXBY/PUB/SHPARMS foo ""a b c"" bar"'

:print shparms
#!/bin/sh

echo "parm 1 = $1"
echo "parm 2 = $2"
echo "parm 3 = $3"

:xeq shtest
parm 1 = foo
parm 2 = a b c
parm 3 = bar

- Mark B.

Peter Osborne wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Quick question about the shell. I'm trying to do something like this from an
> MPE prompt:
>
> sh.hpbin.sys '-c "cvs commit -R -m \"my cvs message\" " '
>
> But it doesn't like me using \" as a third level of quotes, is there a way of
> getting more quote levels? I can't use the ` character as MPE doesn't like it
> and the shell executes anything that use the backtick quotes.
>
> Thanks,
> -Pete
>
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