Reputation: 6338
I need my script to be able to accept arguments with space characters. If, for example, I have a script as follows:
for SOME_VAR in $@
do
echo "$SOME_VAR"
cd "$SOME_VAR"
done;
If I pass arguments to the script (assuming it is called foo.sh
)
sh foo.sh "Hello world"
I am expecting the script to print Hello world
and change the directory to Hello world
. But I get this error message instead:
hello
cd: 5: can't cd to hello
world
cd: 5: can't cd to world
How exactly do I pass an argument with a space character to a command in a shell script?
Upvotes: 36
Views: 67884
Reputation: 328770
You must wrap the $@
in quotes, too: "$@"
This tells the shell to ignore spaces in the arguments; it doesn't turn all arguments into a very long string.
Upvotes: 53