Can't pass an application name with spaces in it as a system property

[CommunityUser]

On a Linux OS, if you try -Dappdynamics.agent.applicationName="My Application" it fails, if you try -Dappdynamics.agent.applicationName="MyApplication" it works. I've tried + and %20 in place of whitespace character but I just get a new application with a + or %20 in the name. Any guesses?

[Brian_Wheeldon · Accepted solution]

There's no problem specifying an application name with spaces in it. We do it all the time.

My guess is that your -Dappdynamics.agent.applicationName="My Application"  is being processed by some other program before it gets to the java command line; that program is not handling the quotes properly.

Try escaping them? -Dappdynamics.agent.applicationName=\"My Application\" ?

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

[CommunityUser]

That is the problem. The shell that reads my definitions file is doing it's own escaping of the string, but escaping it myself isn't working either. Thanks for your suggestion.