[ILUG] Passing arguments containing spaces

[kevin lyda]

oh dear god.  shell quoting isn't rocket science people.  fine.

for future reference, the best test command for shell escaping is this:

    echo "moo  cow"

if the result is anything other than

moo  cow

there are quoting problems.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 04:03:18PM +0000, Liam O'Hagan wrote:
> 3. $ $command
>    $ Error opening MP3: "Tiger: No such file or directory
>    $ Error opening MP3: Rag.mp3": No such file or directory
> 
>    bash has split the quoted parameter into two single-word parameters.

yes.  because if you're going to craft the entire command by hand you
really should use the eval builtin.

like so: eval "$command"

it would be better if instead of constructing the command by hand you
instead did something like:

    mp3info -flag "some meta info" "a file name"

or

    foo="some meta info"
    file="a file name"
    mp3info -flag "$foo" "$file"

kevin