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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting problem with echo inserting single quotes Post 302451876 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 10:34:25 AM
Old 09-08-2010
The read solution will not work in bash, since the part after the pipe runs in a subshell and thus the variables lose their values.
Your original idea would work, with a different variable name and a correct way of setting/unsetting IFS like methyl suggested.

You can do something like this:
Code:
rsyncExclusions=$(IFS=,;for excl in ${exclude}; do printf "%s" "--exclude=\"$excl\" "; done)

then you temporarily change IFS and you do not have to set IFS to its original value.

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SYNOPSIS
void aggregate_methods_by_list (object $object, string $class_name, array $methods_list, [bool $exclude = false]) DESCRIPTION
Aggregates methods from a class to an existing object using a list of method names. The class constructor or methods whose names start with an underscore character (_), which are considered private to the aggregated class, are always excluded. PARAMETERS
o $object - o $class_name - o $methods_list - o $exclude - The optional parameter $exclude is used to decide whether the list contains the names of methods to include in the aggregation (i.e. $exclude is FALSE), or to exclude from the aggregation ($exclude is TRUE). RETURN VALUES
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