Bash: pass variable as a single parameter / shell quote parameter

Question

I\'m writing a bash script which has to pass a variable to another program:

./program $variable

The problem is, it is absolutely necessary for

Answer 1

did you try with var="hello world"?

i tried this in my solaris box.

> setenv var "hello world"
> cat temp.sh
#!/bin/sh

echo $1
echo $2
> ./temp.sh "$var"
hello world

>

as you can see the $2 is not printed.$var is considered as only one argument.