How To Preserve Quotes In Bash Arguments

If you want to preserve quoting to pass shell arguments to a called command, use the four characters "$@"
(including the double quotes) instead of the two characters $*
If you want to preserve quoting to pass shell arguments to a called command, use the four characters "$@"
(including the double quotes) instead of the two characters $*
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