Preserving Blanks in Parameters to Shell Script

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:02:11PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 14 June 2010 22:48, Aharon Schkolnik <aschkolnik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, June 14, 2010, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> >> use $@ instead of $*
> >
> > Does that work for you ?
> >
> > I still get the same results - the script treates file\ one as two
> > parameters - file and one.
> 
> 1. Try switching to #!/bin/bash - I think the "$@" is a bash-specific
> extension which might be disabled if bash is called as "sh".

It's not bash specific.

Mind you, on some systems /bin/sh may point to something other than
bash.

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