Preserving Blanks in Parameters to Shell Script

[Aharon Schkolnik]

On Monday, June 14, 2010, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> use $@ instead of $*

Does that work for you ?

I still get the same results - the script treates file\ one as two 
parameters - file and one.



> 
> 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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