Escaping spaces in arguments to shell script

Steven Erat stevenerat at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 26 23:28:46 EDT 2006


Thanks to all who replied.  I was able to resolve the problem with these
suggestions.



--- Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:56:23AM -0700, Steven Erat wrote:
> > Would someone kindly suggest the solution to passing input parameters
> to a
> > shell script where the arguments may contain spaces?  
> > 
> > Please refer to the example below.
> 
> This is all covered here :
> 
> How can I find and deal with file names containing newlines, spaces or
> both?
> http://wooledge.org/mywiki/BashFaq#faq20 -- 
> 
>  20. How can I find and deal with files names containing newlines,
> spaces or both?
> http://shelldorado.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/BashFaq#faq20
>  
> > 




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