Calling one Bash script from another Script passing it arguments with quotes and spaces

Question

I made two test bash scripts on Linux to make the problem clear   TestScript1 looks like       echo  TestScript1 Arguments       echo   1      echo   2      echo            testscript2  1  2   TestScript2 looks like       echo  TestScript2 Arguments received from TestScript1       echo   1      echo   2      echo        When i execute testscript1 in the following way         testscript1  Firstname Lastname  testmail domain com     The desired Output should be       TestScript1 Arguments        Firstname Lastname       testmail domain com       2     TestScript2 Arguments received from TestScript1        Firstname Lastname       testmail domain com       2     But the actual output is       TestScript1 Arguments        Firstname Lastname       testmail domain com       2     TestScript2 Arguments received from TestScript1        Firstname     Lastname           3     How do i solve this problem  I want to get the desired output instead of the actual output

User · Accepted Answer

Quote your args in Testscript 1   echo  TestScript1 Arguments   echo   1  echo   2  echo        testscript2   1    2

User · Answer

You need to use         WITH the quotes  or         same  but also telling the shell where the variable name starts and ends     and do NOT use       or       or       ex    testscript1  echo  TestScript1 Arguments   for an arg in        do    echo    an arg   done echo  nb of args        testscript2         invokes testscript2 with the same arguments we received   I m not sure I understood your other requirement   you want to invoke    testscript2  in single quotes   so here are 2 wild guesses  changing the last line above        testscript2         only makes sense if   path to testscript2  containes spaces     testscript2   some thing   another     var    var2    3 args to testscript2   Please give me the exact thing you are trying to do  edit  after his comment saying he attempts tesscript1   1    2    3    4    5    6  to run   salt  remote host  cmd run    testscript2  1  2  3  4  5  6   You have many levels of intermediate   testscript1 on host 1  needs to run  salt   and give it a string launching  testscrit2  with arguments in quotes     You could maybe  simplify  by having    testscript1   we receive args  we generate a custom script simulating  testscript2       theargs    1   shift for i in        do    theargs    theargs    i   done  salt  remote host  cmd run    testscript2   theargs     if THAt doesn t work  then instead of running  testscript2   theargs    replace THE LAST LINE above by  echo    testscript2   theargs    gt  tmp runtestscript2      generate custom script locally     is current pid in bash sh      scp  tmp runtestscript2    user remotehost  tmp runtestscript2     copy it to remotehost salt  remotehost  cmd run    runtestscript2      the args are inside the custom script  ssh user remotehost  rm  tmp runtestscript2      delete the remote one rm  tmp runtestscript2     and the local one

User · Answer

I found following program works for me   test1 sh  a xxx test2 sh  a   in test2 sh you use  1 to refer variable a in test1 sh  echo  1  The output would be xxx

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