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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting handling spaces in unix Post 9951 by LivinFree on Tuesday 6th of November 2001 02:08:18 AM
Old 11-06-2001
Also, you can add a "\" before each space, for example:

This\ is\ the\ subject

Also, if your shell allows it, you could set the IFS equal to something else, like the ":" character...

YMMV since I did not test this before posting.
 

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