call bash script with array of strings with spaces as argument

I am fairly new to bash. I want to call a script located on a remote linux machine, passing some normal arguments and one array. The array contains string elements which may have spaces.

I wrote a minimal example:

on the server side: copyFiles.sh

#!/bin/bash msg=$1 msg2=$2 shift shift arr=("$@") # Rebuild the array with rest of arguments for ((i = 0; i < ${#arr[@]}; i++)) do echo $msg $msg2 "${arr[$i]}" done 

On the host side:

first="first" second="second" array=("arra y1" "array2" "array3") plink -ssh username@hostname -pw mypwd -batch " bash scripts/copyFiles.sh $first $second "${array[@]}" " 

Output:

first second arra first second y1 first second array2 first second array3 

What I want:

first second arra y1 first second array2 first second array3 

Thanks

1 Answer

I think you just need to use \" for space separated arguments. Did you try to escape string with spaces in the following way:

"\"arra y1\""

I think it may solve your issue.