Re: [ferret_users] whitespace within command-line arguments

[Russ Fiedler <russell.fiedler@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo,

Escaping with a backslash works for me with V7.1

ferret -script tmp.jnl "hello" "a\ b\ c" "world"
1st--hello--
2nd--a b c--
3rd--world-


Cheers,
Russ




On 19/12/17 17:10, Ryo Furue wrote:
> Dear ferret users,
>
> I was wondering how to pass command line arguments that include blanks 
> to a ferret script.
>
> !--- Ferret script: tmp.jnl ----
> say 1st--($1)--
> say 2nd--($2)--
> say 3rd--($3)--
>
> #-- shell command line ----
> $ /usr/local/ferret-7.3/bin/ferret_v7.3 -script tmp.jnl "hello" "a b 
> c" "world"
> 1st--hello--
> 2nd--a--
> 3rd--b--
> $
>
> (How does ferret obtain the command line parameters? It seems to me to 
> be harder to get the above result than to get "a b c" as a single 
> string . . . )
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ryo