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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: John Clark <email@john.net>
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Subject: Re: BASH -> passing cmd line params
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, John Clark wrote:

> Hello, I am having trouble passing a variable with a space in it as a
> single parameter.  Is there a way to do this?
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> PARAM1="hello world"
> PARAM2="foo"
> PARAM3="bar"
> 
> mycommand $PARAM1 $PARAM2 $PARAM3
> 
> 
> The output of the above script shows 4 command line variables: 1=hello,
> 2=world, 3=foo, 4=bar
> 
> I would like: 1=hello world, 2=foo, 3=bar
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

The output is correct.  Remember that the space is the separator between
options.  If you want your program to consider "hello world" as one
option, enclose itin quotations:

mycommand "$PARAM1" $PARAM2 $PARAM3

Hope this helps.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major