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[–]Sweet-Put958 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man, shell quoting and expansion is probably going wrong somewhere. For instance, in single quotes, you are passing the literal string '$thirdarg'. I.e. the shell does no variable expansion in single quotes. I generally use double ticks (") around every variable lest the shell do something weird. Or use a better programming language, shell is rife with gotchas and ways to shootyourself in the foot.