RE:bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

[Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>]

Karsten Heymann writes:
 > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a
 > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes
 > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:
 > 
 > #!/bin/bash
 > A="Hello"
 > B="Karsten"
 > C=$A $B 
 > someprog --greeting $C

use "$C" instead of $C:

% cat junk
#!/bin/bash
A="hello"
B="there"
C="$A $B"
./junk2 "$C"
% cat junk2
#!/bin/bash
echo $1
% ./junk
hello there

Andrew.