Passing paths to shell script

Hi, I am passing items to a shell script that wraps a ruby script. I noticed that the file names are truncated at the first space when they are passed. I need the script to operate on files that potentially have spaces in them. I'll give an example

~/Desktop/Total Deposit Report - 2333 Sat 03-07-2009 11-20p 4.pdf becomes ~/Desktop/Total

I noticed that each space delimited token is sent as another string in an array.

Here's what I had to do in Ruby to massage these paths:

path = ARGV.join(" "); path=path.chomp; path=path.chomp('\\'); path=path.delete"\""; path=path.delete"\'"

Is there a better way?

Try quoting the file names. Use double-quotes if you still want variables inside to be expanded and single-quotes if you want it to be taken literally.

If the filename is being passed to you as a variable, then you want to use double-quotes like:

Code: Select all: "$1"