Re: [ALUG] Annoying shell script problem - calling external binary

On 02/03/07, samwise <samwise@bagshot-row.org> wrote:

#!/bin/bash -v myfiles="/home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt" echo binary --usethese $myfiles binary --usethese $myfiles

I can't try this atm to check, but have you tried ... myfiles="/home/samwise/Desktop/file\\ with\\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt" as you want the backslash to be passed to the binary, so /it/ knows that it's an escape character. Greg [Resent cc'ing the list]