Today I needed to write a bash script that eventually calls another program, passing all the arguments to it. It seemed like a simple enough task: just use
$@. However, the problem was that the program accepts arguments surrounded with quotes, and the
$@ stripped the quotes away. I was really surprised that google didn't immediately find an answer.
Finally I reached this forum:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/62564-bash-script-problem-preserving-quotes-arguments.htmlAnd to save you the trouble, here's a script that preserves the quotes:
#!/bin/bash
# blah blah blah
./foo "$@"
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