Re: [Parameter Expansion] bug in ${variable% *}

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Dashing wrote:
> $ ./pe 'mplayer foo1\ foo2\ foo3\ 4\ 5\ foo6\ 7'
> :--Mistake--:
> :--Mistake--:

Whatever you're doing, it's wrong.

./pe mplayer foo1\ foo2\ foo3\ 4\ 5\ foo6\ 7

#!/bin/bash
prog=$1
shift
exec "$prog" extra args go here "$@"

THAT is how a wrapper should be done.  Do not combine a program and its
arguments all together into a single argument and then try to parse it
apart.