Re: What is the best to pass an array with specially characters as command line arguments?

[Peng Yu]

Hi Clark,

> What do you mean by "1 long argument"?
>
> [bash-4.2.10] # cat foo.sh
> v="  a b c ( a'b | "
> set -o noglob
> a=( $v )
> set +o noglob
> for i in "${a[@]}"; do
>     echo "$i"
> done
> [bash-4.2.10] # bash foo.sh
> a
> b
> c
> (
> a'b
> |
> [bash-4.2.10] #


I misunderstood the usage of "${args[@]}". I though it returns only
one long argument "  a b c ( a'b | ", but it actually expanded to 6
short arguments "a", "b", "c", "(", "a'b" and  "|". Thanks for
clarification.



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Regards,
Peng