2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/cppawk b/cppawk
index b49940a..1b2f1d6 100755
--- a/cppawk
+++ b/cppawk
@@ -68,12 +68,6 @@ quote()
   esac
 }
 
-# convert shell-quoted syntax to datum it denotes
-unquote()
-{
-  eval printf \"%s \" "$1"
-}
-
 die()
 {
    fmt="$0: $1\n" ; shift
@@ -129,20 +123,20 @@ trap 'rm -f $tmp_file' EXIT INT TERM
 if [ -n "$awk_file" ] ; then
   tmp_file=$(mktemp)
   $delhashbang "$awk_file" | \
-    $prepro $incopt$(dirname "$awk_file") $(unquote "$prepro_opts") - > $tmp_file
+    eval '$prepro $incopt"$(dirname "$awk_file")" '"$prepro_opts -" > $tmp_file
   [ $prepro_only ] \
     && cat $tmp_file \
-    || $awk $(unquote "$awk_opts") -f $tmp_file "$@"
+    || eval "$awk $awk_opts -f $tmp_file" "$@"
 elif [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
   tmp_file=$(mktemp)
   if [ $prepro_only ] ; then
     printf "%s" "$1" | $delhashbang | \
-      $prepro $incopt"$(pwd)" $(unquote "$prepro_opts") -
+      eval '$prepro $incopt"$(pwd)"'"$prepro_opts -"
   else
     printf "%s" "$1" | $delhashbang | \
-      $prepro $incopt"$(pwd)" $(unquote "$prepro_opts") - > $tmp_file
+      eval '$prepro $incopt"$(pwd)" '"$prepro_opts -" > $tmp_file
     shift
-    $awk $(unquote "$awk_opts") -f $tmp_file "$@"
+    eval "$awk $awk_opts -f $tmp_file \"\$@\""
   fi
 else
   die "awk code must be specified"
diff --git a/testcases b/testcases
index 8011eca..1dd1f52 100644
--- a/testcases
+++ b/testcases
@@ -126,3 +126,13 @@ BEGIN { }
 ./cppawk -f testdir/program.cwk
 :
 73
+--
+22:
+./cppawk -v foo="abc def" 'BEGIN { print foo }'
+:
+abc def
+--
+23:
+./cppawk 'BEGIN { printf("%s:%s:%s\n", ARGC, ARGV[1], ARGV[2]) }' "ab c" "'"
+:
+3:ab c:'