On 08/16/2014 02:44 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
if [ -n $# ]
then
     WORDS=$1
else
     WORDS="these are some words"
fi
echo $WORDS;

The second case is always comes back "".

But if I write

WORDS='these are some words'
echo $WORDS

I get the assigned string.

In your first example, you use full quotes (") but in your second, you use single ('). Try using single quotes and see if it makes a difference.
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