Unix shell isn't respecting my quotes around arguments

Question

When I run a program test in unix, I type in the shell:
shell> java test "arg1 arg2 arg3" arg4
My program should now have two arguments
arg1 arg2 arg3
...and
arg4
Instead it has 4 arguments
arg1
arg2
arg3
arg4
I tried single quotes and everything. Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

Quite.
For example:
public class Args {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println(args.length + " arguments received:");
      for( String s : args ) {
         System.out.println(s);
}Input:
java Args "arg1 arg2 arg3" arg4
Output:
2 arguments received:
arg1 arg2 arg3
arg4
(edit) That's running under the Bourne Again Shell (bash) on Linux.