Sometimes, not often, it really helps me debug complicated shell scripts and other things to see what the actual contents of the argv array of a program I'm trying to run is. I wrote a little Python script for this years ago, called print-argv. I just prints out the contents of the argv array.
$ print-argv echo hello world
[0]: /usr/bin/print-argv
[1]: echo
[2]: hello
[3]: world
The script core is:
for i, arg in enumerate(sys.argv):
sys.stdout.write("[%d]: %s\n" % (i, arg))
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