[ILUG] Passing arguments containing spaces

[kae verens]

Liam O'Hagan wrote:

>The following command, issued at the command line, works fine :
>
>mp3info -a "Louis Armstrong" -l "The Essential Louis" -t \
> "Basin Street Blues" "Basin Street Blues.mp3"
>
>However, if I do this :
>command="mp3info -a \"Louis Armstrong\" -l \"The Essential Louis\" -t \
>  \"Basin Street Blues\" \"Basin Street Blues.mp3\""
>
>It appears that bash is not passing the quoted arguments intact 
>but is breaking them up at the spaces.
>
>Is there a simple trick that I'm missing to get bash to pass the arguments
>as I'd like?
>  
>

try escaping the backslash as well:

command="mp3info -a \\\"Louis Armstrong\\\" -l \\\"The Essential Louis\\\" -t \
  \\\"Basin Street Blues\\\" \\\"Basin Street Blues.mp3\\\""

Kae