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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:35:51
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From: John Clark <email@john.net>
Subject: BASH -> passing cmd line params
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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.



John Clark
[email@john.net]