Question

I currently have a bash script. It looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    sendcommand)
        do X with $2
        exit
        ;;
esac

How would I send all of command this command with spaces into $2 without command acting as $3, with as $4 and so on? Is there something like PHP or Javascript’s encodeURI for bash?

Answer 1

You also have to call your script with the second argument in quotes too

./scriptname sendcommand "command with spaces"

Your script should look like this

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    sendcommand)
        something "$2"
        exit
        ;;
esac