On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, gscant...@comcast.net wrote:
I want a script to execute the command:
ls -alst "dir with spaces"
The script looks like this :
#! /bin/bash
PARAMS_FOR_LS="-alst \"dir with spaces\""
echo $PARAMS_FOR_LS
ls $PARAMS_FOR_LS
$PARAMS_FOR_LS is subject to word splitting.
Try this instead:
PARAMS_FOR_LS=( -alst "dir with spaces" )
ls "${PARAMS_FOR_LS[@]}"
See also <http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050>.
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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
Author:
Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
