On 3/1/22 10:29, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Chris Schanzle mentioned off-list that a tab character had been > replaced with spaces (I *knew* that should have been an attached file, > shame on me). He also suggested an improvement that removes the tab > character, so here's a second try. Or not? Last try. #!/bin/sh declare -a cmdline tab=$'\t' eol=$'\n' for arg in "$@" do arg="${arg//\\011/$tab}" arg="${arg//\\012/$eol}" arg="${arg//\\040/ }" arg="${arg//\\134/\\}" arg="${arg//\\\\/\\}" cmdline+=("$arg") done "${cmdline[@]}"