Preserving Blanks in Parameters to Shell Script

[Noam Meltzer]

use $@ instead of $*


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I want to write a script which will nice ffmpeg whatever parameters it is
> given - ie:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> nice ffmpeg $*
>
> #
>
>
> However, what if I have a file named `file one'
>
>
> I would like to type `myscript -i file\ one output.whatever`
>
> I do not want to change what I type - the script needs to be a drop-in
> replacement for the ffmpeg command.
>
>
> Is there any way to do make the script preserve the backslashed space ?
>
> TIA
>
>
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