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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. Thank you, Steven Erat [auser at localhost ~]$ ls makeLink.sh [auser at localhost ~]$ cat makeLink.sh #!/bin/sh echo First arg is: $1, Second arg is $2 /bin/ln -s $1 $2 [auser at localhost ~]$ mkdir foo [auser at localhost ~]$ ./makeLink.sh foo foo\ bar First arg is: foo, Second arg is foo bar /bin/ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory [auser at localhost ~]$ ln -s foo boo\ hoo [auser at localhost ~]$ ls -l total 20 lrwxrwxrwx 1 auser auser 3 Apr 26 11:50 boo hoo -> foo drwxrwxr-x 2 auser auser 4096 Apr 26 11:49 foo -rwxr-xr-x 1 auser auser 68 Apr 26 11:44 makeLink.sh [auser at localhost ~]$ ./makeLink.sh foo 'some\ thing' First arg is: foo, Second arg is some\ thing /bin/ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory
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