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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting read command line as it is Post 302240367 by cfajohnson on Thursday 25th of September 2008 02:22:59 PM
Old 09-25-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajitkumar2
I want to read the command line as it is in the script.
say
prompt$ a.sh 'inst_cont_Header__dss -v '" 0"' -m'

What you have there is equivalent to:

Code:
inst_cont_Header__dss -v           0 -m

That is what the script sees.

If you want the shell to see something else, then it has to be written differently.
Quote:

i want to use 'inst_cont_Header__dss -v '" 0"' -m' as it is, inside the scripts a.sh.

I've tried
$@
"$@"
$*
"$*"

but all of these in some way or other tamper the sting in the command line - these remove " or ' or sqeeze multiple spaces into one.

If the variable is unquoted multiple spaces are (except in rare instances) just separating arguments; the number of spaces is irrelevant.
 

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