How to pass parameters containig options from variables

[bd@bc-bd.org]

Hello list,

I am trying to pass these arguments

	-N -p -F "not host foo"

to a binary, but

	ARGS="-N -p -F 'not host foo'"
	$DAEMON $ARGS

get's passed as 6 arguments and not 4.

Using xargs this works, but I'd like to not introduce that dependency:

	ARGS="-N -p -F 'not host foo'"
	echo $ARGS | xargs $DAEMON

Now for the complete picture, it's the init script for arpwatch. Options that
should be passed to arpwatch can be specified by the sysadm in
/etc/default/arpwatch with is sourced by the initscript and then passed (via
start-stop-daemon) to the arpwatch binary.

This is on debian stable, package version 0.5.5.1-7.4

	Stefan
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