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Problems handling spaces in filenames

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I rarely write bash scripts, so I am not surprised I ran into trouble
with spaces in filenames in one:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq $2 $3`; do
	base=$1-$i
	image=${base}.jpeg
	pdflist="${pdflist} \"$base.pdf\""
	tesseract "$image" "$base" -l deu pdf;
done
pdfjoin $pdflist && rm $pdflist
mv "$1"-"$3"-joined.pdf "$1".pdf

I wrote and use this script to convert JPEG images (names e.g.
test-1.jpeg, test-2-jpeg, etc) to searchable pdf (names test.pdf).
However, the

pdfjoin $pdflist

isn't working when $1 contains spaces. Apparently the quotes are
disappearing somewhere along the way.

Philipp

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