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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with getopt Post 302256295 by wempy on Sunday 9th of November 2008 08:01:55 AM
Old 11-09-2008
well you could monkey with the IFS variable in bash, but that would throw up even more headaches. Basically, you need to stop the shell from reading the spaces as spaces (i.e. field seperators) so you could also quote each individual space by backslashing it.
I think the easiest way is to enforce multiple -r <option> on the command line, and alter the code accordingly.
 

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