How to keep quotes in Bash arguments? [duplicate]

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using "$@" will substitute the arguments as a list, without re-splitting them on whitespace (they were split once when the shell script was invoked), which is generally exactly what you want if you just want to re-pass the arguments to another program.

Note that this is a special form and is only recognized as such if it appears exactly this way. If you add anything else in the quotes the result will get combined into a single argument.

What are you trying to do and in what way is it not working?

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