On Monday 14 Jun 2010 15:27:43 Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > Hi. > > I want to write a script which will nice ffmpeg whatever parameters it is > given - ie: > > #!/bin/sh > > nice ffmpeg $* > > # > > > However, what if I have a file named `file one' > > > I would like to type `myscript -i file\ one output.whatever` > > I do not want to change what I type - the script needs to be a drop-in > replacement for the ffmpeg command. > > > Is there any way to do make the script preserve the backslashed space ? >
Yes, use quotes: [shell] # Untested #!/bin/sh nice ffmpeg "$@" [/shell] "$@" when in quotes causes it to be something like "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" , and so forth up to the number of quotes. The whitespace-in-shell-variables-handling is part of a general code/markup injection problem: * http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/35301.html * http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/14671.html Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
