Re: Bash $@ expansion undocumentedly ignoring '

[suvayu ali]

Hello Andreas,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 15:24, Andreas Marschke
<andreas.marschke@googlemail.com> wrote:
> it has come to my attention that bash is unexpectedly removing quotes
> from parameters given to a script if read from within the
> script. See attached shell-script for a full explanation.

You could have put the explanation in the email, instead of an
attachment. Its much more convenient that way.

> This does not constitute that quotations in the passed parameters are
> to be ignored/removed upon passing them back to the script.

I believe this is where you are misunderstanding. The quotes are removed
by the current instance of bash (the shell that you use to invoke the
script). If you want to pass on the quotes as is, you would need to
excape them with a backslash.

$ ./test.sh \'bla \'foo 'bar'
'bla 'foo bar

As you see, the first two quotes are passed on to the script, whereas
the last two are not.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Suvayu

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