Issue with Command Line arguments which got spaces in it

Question

I have a Java program which I\'m executing in a Linux environment through a bash script.

This is my simple bash script, which accepts a String.

#!/bi         


        

Answer 1

In the original question the OP is using a shell script to call a java command line and would like the shell script to pass the arguments without performing the Blank interpretation (Word Splitting) option of input interpretation https://rg1-teaching.mpi-inf.mpg.de/unixffb-ss98/quoting-guide.html#para:sh-ifs

If you know how many arguments there are then you can double quote the arguments

#!/bin/bash
java -cp  com.QuoteTester "$1"

So you call this script, save as quotetester.sh.

./quotetester.sh "hello world" 

and "hello world" gets passed as a single argument to Java. You could also use

./quotetester.sh hello\ world 

with the same effect.