08-15-2014
That cannot possibly be your code... BASH does not use // for comments, it uses #.
If your variables contain spaces you need to quote them in double-quote characters, like "$a" and "${CONFIGURATION_ARRAY[@]}" or BASH will split them in unintended ways.
That last "sudo" is probably the only place you don't want to quote them -- you want it to split there, to get normal behavior.
Instead of feeding everything into sudo, I suggest doing this: printf "[%s]\n" $N $M ...so you can tell exactly what arguments you're actually getting with those different methods.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-15-2014 at 12:38 PM..
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 444: 09 Jun 2011 LESSECHO(1)