Re: how to pass arguments with space inside?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 09 April 2009 16:46:27 lehe wrote:
> I was wondering how to pass arguments with space inside. For example, my
> bash script looks like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ARG_OPTS=""
> while [[ -n "$1" ]];
>         ARG_OPTS="${ARG_OPTS} $1"
>       shift
> done
>
> If I pass an argument like "--options='-t 0 -v 0'", then it would be
> splitted by the spaces inside, ie "--options='-t", "0", "-v" and "0".
>
> How can I achieve what I wish?

use arrays

$ f=( a "b c" d)
$ printf '%s\n' "${f[@]}"
a
b c
d
-mike

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