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How to preserve white space in Bash arguments

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Mar 15, 20269482 views

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I use the command: It first goes to , which will then redirect to another file. : : So, how can I pass arguments from one script to another and make sure white space won't be read as an argument separator?

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cm1 cm2 arg1 arg2 'argument 3'

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