Escaping spaces in arguments to shell script

[Matej Cepl]

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> You're using a combination of quotes and escape ('\'), and therefore the
> escape is being used literally.
>> [auser at localhost ~]$ ./makeLink.sh foo 'some\ thing'

Moreover, read in bash(1) difference between doublequotes (") and single
quotes (') -- contrary to other languages (Python) they are not the same in
bash. Single quotes are much more literal, so '\ ' could mean really
<backslash><space>. On the other hand, if you use ' ', you don't have to
bother with escaping the space at all.

Matej

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