Apache CLI option value with whitespace

Question

I'm using Apache CLI to parse command line arguments. One of my arguments is a filter that takes a string MyApp -f "search for this string"

I thought when i do cmdLine.getOptionValue("f") it would return: search for this string

However it just returns search

What should I do to ensure that the entire string is retrieved, apparently just wrapping it in double quotes doesn't seem to work.

I'm on ubuntu.

Answer 1

I think passing the string with extra single quotes should work:

MyApp -f "'search for this string'"