Preserving Blanks in Parameters to Shell Script

[Noam Meltzer]

I'm sorry. I tend to forget why I hate shell scripts.
Use "$@" instead. (checked it this time, it works ;-) )

2010/6/14 Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com>

> 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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