On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:50:49PM +0100, Dashing wrote: > $ ./pe 'mplayer foo1\ foo2\ foo3\ 4\ 5\ foo6\ 7' > :--Mistake--: > :--Mistake--:
Whatever you're doing, it's wrong. ./pe mplayer foo1\ foo2\ foo3\ 4\ 5\ foo6\ 7 #!/bin/bash prog=$1 shift exec "$prog" extra args go here "$@" THAT is how a wrapper should be done. Do not combine a program and its arguments all together into a single argument and then try to parse it apart.
