How to pass quoted parameters to another program

Question

In a bash script, I need to pass a parameter to another program. The parameter has spaces in so must be quoted. Everything works fine in this simple case 1:

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Answer 1

You are almost there. You just have to put the $DEFAULTS into double quotes so that bash doesn't do the word spliting.

DEFAULTS='param="ac def ghi"'
perl -le'print $ARGV[0]' "$DEFAULTS"

Output:

param="ac def ghi"