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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problems passing strings within an array Post 302780055 by hungryd on Wednesday 13th of March 2013 05:19:18 PM
Old 03-13-2013
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i have a list of apps that i need to forcequit and, from time to time, that list changes. perfect excuse to manage a single array! however, my strings with spaces aren't passing as i'd like them to. here's the simple script:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

#-----Array
apps=( firefox-bin firefox JavaApplicationStub groupwise "Google\ Chrome" "Microsoft\ Word" )

for i in "${apps[@]}"
do
	killall $i
done
exit 0

when i generate verbose feedback, i'm seeing each app in question quit EXCEPT for those with spaces. on a mac, in the command line, i have to type the following to forcequit word and chrome:

Code:
killall Microsoft\ Word
killall Google\ Chrome

but i can't seem to find a way to paste the correct syntax into the array to get these applications to quit as the others do. in the above script example, the result just says:

"+ for i in '"${apps[@]}"'
+ killall 'Microsoft\' Word
No matching processes were found"

any thoughts on what i might be missing?
 

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GLSHADERSOURCE(3G)						  [FIXME: manual]						GLSHADERSOURCE(3G)

NAME
glShaderSource - Replaces the source code in a shader object C SPECIFICATION
void glShaderSource(GLuint shader, GLsizei count, const GLchar **string, const GLint *length); PARAMETERS
shader Specifies the handle of the shader object whose source code is to be replaced. count Specifies the number of elements in the string and length arrays. string Specifies an array of pointers to strings containing the source code to be loaded into the shader. length Specifies an array of string lengths. DESCRIPTION
glShaderSource sets the source code in shader to the source code in the array of strings specified by string. Any source code previously stored in the shader object is completely replaced. The number of strings in the array is specified by count. If length is NULL, each string is assumed to be null terminated. If length is a value other than NULL, it points to an array containing a string length for each of the corresponding elements of string. Each element in the length array may contain the length of the corresponding string (the null character is not counted as part of the string length) or a value less than 0 to indicate that the string is null terminated. The source code strings are not scanned or parsed at this time; they are simply copied into the specified shader object. NOTES
OpenGL copies the shader source code strings when glShaderSource is called, so an application may free its copy of the source code strings immediately after the function returns. ERRORS
GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if shader is not a value generated by OpenGL. GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if shader is not a shader object. GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if count is less than 0. ASSOCIATED GETS
glGetShader() with arguments shader and GL_SHADER_SOURCE_LENGTH glGetShaderSource() with argument shader glIsShader() SEE ALSO
glCompileShader(), glCreateShader(), glDeleteShader() COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/. [FIXME: source] 05/30/2012 GLSHADERSOURCE(3G)
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