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bakunin@bookchin $ cat parse.sh
#! /bin/ksh
print - "first arg: \"$1\"  second arg: \"$2\" third arg: \"$3\""
exit 0

bakunin@bookchin $ ./parse.sh first "second argument" third
first arg: "first"  second arg: "second argument" third arg: "third"

#! /bin/ksh

parse_it ()
{
print - "entering parse_it():"
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
     print - "-- >$1<"
     shift
done
return 0
}


# main ()
# prepare input file
print - "willi \"hugo kuno\" theo" > parse.in
print - "\"first arg\" \"second\" third" >> parse.in

# parse it
cat parse.in | while read line ; do
     set -xv
     eval parse_it $line
     set +xv
done

exit 0