Question

I am writing a shell script in csh, and one of its functions is to execute a Perl script that takes in arguments.

The csh script itself takes in command line arguments (stored as space-separated values in $*), and I pass this to the Perl script.

My issue is that when I run:

perl myscript.pl --args $*

the Perl script only gets the first argument in $*. However, if I run echo $* from within the csh script, it correctly prints out all the arguments.

There can be any number of arguments passed (thus I cannot store my arguments in static variables and pass them through).

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix this?

Answer 1

You need to quote $* in your csh script:

perl myscript.pl --args "$*"

Here is myscript.pl:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use Data::Dumper;

my %opt;
GetOptions(\%opt, 'args=s');
print Dumper(\%opt);

Here is how I call it:

script.csh arg1 arg2

$VAR1 = {
          'args' => 'arg1 arg2'
        };