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occurred Aug 24, 2014 at 23:38

fixed grammar

edited Aug 23, 2014 at 18:25

I'm trying to pass multiple argument to a function, but one of them is consist of two words and I want shell function to deal with it as one arg:

args=("$@") function(){ echo ${args[0]} echo ${args[1]} echo ${args[2]} }

when iI call this command `sh shell hi hello guys byesh shell hi hello guys bye

I get this

hi hello guys

butBut what I really want is:

hi hello guys bye

I'm trying to pass multiple argument to a function, but one of them is consist of two words and I want shell function to deal with it as one arg:

args=("$@") function(){ echo ${args[0]} echo ${args[1]} echo ${args[2]} }

when i call this command `sh shell hi hello guys bye

I get this

hi hello guys

but what I really want is

hi hello guys bye

I'm trying to pass multiple argument to a function, but one of them is consist of two words and I want shell function to deal with it as one arg:

args=("$@") function(){ echo ${args[0]} echo ${args[1]} echo ${args[2]} }

when I call this command sh shell hi hello guys bye

I get this

hi hello guys

But what I really want is:

hi hello guys bye

asked Aug 23, 2014 at 18:18

How to pass argument with spaces to a shell script function?

I'm trying to pass multiple argument to a function, but one of them is consist of two words and I want shell function to deal with it as one arg:

args=("$@") function(){ echo ${args[0]} echo ${args[1]} echo ${args[2]} }

when i call this command `sh shell hi hello guys bye

I get this

hi hello guys

but what I really want is

hi hello guys bye

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