Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?
Of course, that was the first thing that came to mi mind, too. But
it didn't work -- unfortunately I can't give you more details as it
was a friend's script, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I thought maybe one could change the meaning of the spaces, e.g. by
assigning something to IFS?
Even if it was a mistake -- is there no other way then quoting? A
quick look at some manuals gave me the impression that this problem
might not be just a silly mistake of mine, can it?
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:58:04PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:49:54PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
> > Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated
> > words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the
> > recipient and the second the message or similar?
>
> Quote them. Use double quotes if you want parameter substitution to
> happen inside the quotes, such as "$foo $bar".
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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