Passing arguments to main method from a shell script

Question

The main method of my class accept more than 10 arguments so my shell script execute this class like this :
java -cp xxxx mypackage.MyClass $*
The problem is that some of those arguments allows spaces. When i execute this script like this :
myscript.sh firstparam secondparam ...... tenthparm "eleventh param"
or
myscript.sh firstparam secondparam ...... tenthparm 'eleventh param'
the java class consider that my eleventh param is 'eleven' and not 'eleventh param'
The same class works well with an equivalent dos script.

Answer 1

I had this problem once also, and I found there are several ways to fix it. One way is to replace all of the spaces in the arguments with _ characters, or you can concantate all of the arguments into one String at runtime (with spaces in between) and use code to separate the arguments out. With the quotation marks, this code would be simple. If the spaces in one argument are used to divide different parts of the argument, just make them spearate arguments.