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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bash - add backslash in front of variables w/ spaces Post 302254744 by bakunin on Wednesday 5th of November 2008 04:32:39 AM
Old 11-05-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by trey85stang
since myvar is in a loop being generated by the find command.
That does not matter. There must be somewhere (a part of) a statement where this variable is populated. One of the following three possibilities:

Code:
var=some value
var=$(some command)
var=`some command`

The last one is simply to be changed to the second one (for the greater good of shell programming ;-)) ) and the first two can be enclosed in double quotes:

Code:
var="some value"
var="$(some command)"
var=`some command` => var="$(some command)"

Post the (relevant part of the) code if you are not sure how to do it.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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append(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							append(1T)

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NAME
append - Append to variable SYNOPSIS
append varName ?value value value ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Append all of the value arguments to the current value of variable varName. If varName doesn't exist, it is given a value equal to the concatenation of all the value arguments. The result of this command is the new value stored in variable varName. This command provides an efficient way to build up long variables incrementally. For example, ``append a $b'' is much more efficient than ``set a $a$b'' if $a is long. EXAMPLE
Building a string of comma-separated numbers piecemeal using a loop. set var 0 for {set i 1} {$i<=10} {incr i} { append var "," $i } puts $var # Prints 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 SEE ALSO
concat(1T), lappend(1T) KEYWORDS
append, variable ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl append(1T)
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