prince_jammys 1207608327 learn Don't feed several arguments to a command by putting them all in one variable. Use an array, for example: myargs=( -arg1 -arg2 "arg 3" ), and expand them with COMMAND "${myargs[@]}". prince_jammys 1208187230 forget prince_jammys 1208187276 learn Don't feed several arguments to a command by putting them all in one variable. Use an array, for example: myargs=( -arg1 -arg2 "arg 3" ), and expand them with COMMAND "${myargs[@]}". See http://wooledge.org/mywiki/BashFAQ/005 and !faq 50.