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

If you put double quotes around the environment variable, its spaces will be preserved.

X='"a b" "c d" e' ; perl -e'for( @ARGV ) { print( "$_\n" ) } ;' "$X"

You can then parse each argument.

X='"a b" "c d" e' ; perl -e'for( @ARGV ) { print "$1\n" while /\G\s*("[^"]*"|\S+)/gc } ;' "$X"

Comment on Re: passing parameters from shell script to perl program doesn't preserve spaces [solved] Select or Download Code