Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash  -e
listOfParms=$(echo ONE TWO \"TH REE\")
echo PARMS: $listOfParms
# next line doesn't work as intended
./proofTstB.sh $listOfParms
# next line does work as intended
eval "./proofTstB.sh $listOfParms"
exit

#!/bin/bash 
echo "------------------------"
echo
parmsArray=("$@")
elem_cnt=${#parmsArray[@]}
echo element count: $elem_cnt
indx=0
while [ "$indx" -lt "$elem_cnt" ]
do
	echo "parm[$indx]: ${parmsArray[indx]}"
	let indx+=1
done
exit

#!/bin/bash

listOfParms=( ONE TWO "TH REE" )

# echo really is getting ONE TWO "TH REE" as three args here -- it's just
# impossible to tell from the output.
echo PARMS: "${listOfParms[@]}"

# This illustrates what happens to the array better.
# IFS controls what characters variables split on when evaluated,
# and what character arrays are joined on when flattened with[*].
OLDIFS="$IFS" ; IFS=","
echo PARMS: "${listOfParms[*]}"
IFS="$OLDIFS"

./prooftstb.sh "${listOfParms[@]}"

#!/bin/bash

echo "$# args"

for ((N=1; N<=$#; N++))
do
        echo "arg ${N}:        ${!N}"
done

$ ./prooftsta.sh
PARMS: ONE TWO TH REE
PARMS: ONE,TWO,TH REE
3 arguments
arg 1:        ONE
arg 2:        TWO
arg 3:        TH REE

STR='this has "quotes and stuff" in it'