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neo33
neo33

Reputation: 1879

how to receive a parameter that contains spaces as a single parameter?

I am making and script with positional parameters the parameters are $1 and $2, the name of the script is script.sh and looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

echo $1
echo $2

and i run it as follows bash script.sh '1 2' 3 in order to consider '1 2' as a single parameter, and i get the following output

1 2
3

since i am leading with parameters with spaces i want to find a way to obtain the same output without using the quotes inside the code, i would appreciate any suggestion

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531165

If you set IFS to an empty string, word-splitting will be disabled.

$ foo="1       2"
$ IFS=
$ echo $1
1       2

However, I can't think of a good reason to do this rather than simply quoting the expansion.

Upvotes: 1

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