Am 25.01.2010 00:19, schrieb Adrian C.: > Now I want a variable or array at the top of the script so I could > easily add, remove and comment plugins... rewriting the above example: > > vdrplug=(-Pfemon > -P"softdevice -vo xv:full -ao alsa:mixer:pcm=default" > ) > $vdrbin -L $vdrlib ${vdrplug[@]} The correct way to place every array element as one parameter, without doing any additional whitespace separation, is this: "$vdrbin" -L "$vdrlib" "${vdrplug[@]}" In contrast, "${vdrplug[*]}" merges all to one parameter, ${vdrplug[@]} does another whitespace separation run. runvdr extreme also uses a bash array for building the command line. Cheers, Udo _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr