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Old 03-17-2008
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Problem with double quote and string variable

Hello,

i have a file output.txt which contains a single line with a list of files with quotes :
"file1.ext" "file2.ext" "file3.ext"

In a shell script, I want to retrieve the line and use it as a variable in a command like :
zip archive.zip $LIST

I cant get it work. When I physically type the command zip archive.zip "file1.ext" "file2.ext" "file3.ext", it works just fine but when I try to use a string variable I get an error.

Is there a proper way to do that?
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