Re: how to pass arguments with space inside?

[lehe]

Thanks Mike.
Could you explain it a little? I don't quite get it. How to apply this to
argument parsing?


Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> 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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