Re: passing parameters from shell script to perl program doesn't preserve spaces

This works, at least in bash:

$ args=(one "two three" four "five six")
$ perl -e 'for (@ARGV) {print "$_\n"}' "${args[@]}"
one
two three
four
five six
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Re^2: passing parameters from shell script to perl program doesn't preserve spaces by peterbk (Initiate) on Dec 21, 2016 at 09:34 UTC
Thanks @all for the hints. Parameter passing from shells seems to be not as easy as I had thought. Thus I have added another parameter to my perl program, which tells it to read the parameters from a file instead of the command line. This works like desired and circumvents shell interpretations.	[reply]
Re^3: passing parameters from shell script to perl program doesn't preserve spaces by Discipulus (Canon) on Dec 21, 2016 at 10:23 UTC
oh! if you admit to read params from files you can find Modules as configuration files an interesting solution. Mixing it with `xargs` made it easy. L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l] [select]