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I have a command to execute in a bash script. If I run the command directly in the console, it works fine but if I put it in a script and execute the script, it throws the following error:

Bad command-line arguments

The command I successfully executed in the console is:

output=`java -jar myjar.jar -agent iOS -host localhost /Users/vskumar/monkeytalk/workspace/MonkeyProject/'shoppingcart_deleteproduct - Online_V2.mt'`

In the script, it looks like this:

output=`java -jar $JAR_LOCATION/$JAR_LIST -agent $AGENT_NAME -host $HOST -reportdir $REPORT_DIR/$rep_date $MT_TEST_ROOT_DIR/$SUBSTRING`

where the value of $MT_TEST_ROOT_DIR is 

/Users/vskumar/monkeytalk/workspace/MonkeyProject

and the value of $SUSBSTRING is

'shoppingcart_deleteproduct - Online_V2.mt'
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    Quote your variables. Commented Feb 27, 2016 at 2:09

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Note that you have spaces in the $SUSBSTRING variable that are interpreted as multiple parameters. In order to fix that just put double quotes around your variables:

 output=`java -jar "$JAR_LOCATION"/"$JAR_LIST" -agent "$AGENT_NAME" -host "$HOST" -reportdir "$REPORT_DIR"/"$rep_date" "$MT_TEST_ROOT_DIR"/"$SUBSTRING"`
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even for those that don't have spaces?
It is good practice to quote all your variables, you never know when the spaces will strike...

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