How to pass argument to an external script?

Question

I want to pass some argument to an external script. I try :

    \immediate\write18{./script \a\ \b\ \c > output.tex}

It works, but \a \b and \c are not given as three different arguments, but as one concatened string to the first argument.

How to pass three or more arguments ?

Answer 1

"\ " is a command for the typesetting engine of TeX, here you just need a space token that is provided by macro \space:

\immediate\write18{./script \a\space\b\space\c >output.tex}

Macro \space is defined in the LaTeX kernel as:

\def\space{ }