Re: inotifywait in bash script: space

["B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch>]

Dear all,

thank you for your inputs - indeed, I had to add "eval" to my script to get it 
working.

Best,
Bernd


On Samstag, 2. Dezember 2017 17:10:10 CET you wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> not a Debian specific question, but I hope to get an answer here...
> 
> I try to use inotifywait in a bash script to block until a file in a
> directory gets changed. Then the script should continue. That's working
> well unless the path I hand over to inotifywait contains spaces.
> 
> I already tried to escape them like so:
> 
>   MYCOMMAND = "inotifywait  -qqr -e create \"$MYDIR\""
> 
> where MYDIR is something like "/tmp/test dir" but although echo shows the
> command correctly and putting the very same command in a shell just works,
> as part of my script it doesn't work. (I don't want to get paths back from
> inotifywait.)
> 
> Thanks for any pointers towards clarification and help.
> 
> Best,
> Bernd