-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly: > Every combination of single quotes, double quotes, and escaping seems to > either send it all as one argument, or send it all as separate arguments, > but each argument is quoted. You seem to have overlooked the most simple solution: don't quote it at all. This should give you exactly what you want: a space separated list of args. The main reason for quotes is to preserve space or change the default handling of metacharacters. In this case, it appears you don't want to do either. So don't use quotes. - -- Derek Martin ddm@pizzashack.org - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8xiO7djdlQoHP510RAnLzAJ9lnR99hAff3HAcb1450nnLwC8FywCcCvPt JK2rlzuMOknrXvJGeZaYkbE= =a1wW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----