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From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
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Subject: mulltiword arguments in C-shell
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Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 15:05:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 15:05:07 1987
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I have a problem:

	I'm writing a C-shell script which reads in arguments from the command
line, shifts them around in a prearranged fashion, and spits them back out
again.  The problems is that some of these arguments have more than one word in
them.  Such arguments have quotes around them, i.e. "boo hoo".

	When the shell reads these arguments into the program it recognizes the
quoted arguments as a single argument--but--it promptly removes the quotes, and
the argument is thereafter handled as 2 arguments.

	My question, Mr. Anthony, is:  How can I get the shell to handle these
multi-word arguments all the way through to the output and dump them out with
the quotes still around them, so that the next program will also recognize them
as a single argument?

Help!

Norm (strong@fluke)