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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash error when using quote Post 302929304 by sea on Friday 19th of December 2014 10:32:58 AM
Old 12-19-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jcdole
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If either the directory source or destination contain space, I must use quote ?
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Yes.
* is handled as shell expansion, but if you put it into quotes, it might be taken literary (as in: just as the char it is)
This is also true for REGEX, if you put them into quotes, they will fail.

There are a few exceptions to this:
Code:
for ELEMENT in "${ARRAY[*]}"
do
   echo "$ELEMENT"
done

Here, the quotes around the array would be required, if any of the arrays elements contains a space.

In some occasions it is easier to make a list-variable first.
Code:
# Defines the variable 'list' as an array
declare -A list   
# Fill the array, exit if it fails
list=$(echo /var/log/*log) || exit 1 
# Copy the files
cp -v "${list[*]}" "/target/dir"

Alternativly, you can create an array also like these:
Code:
array1=( one two "t h r e e" four)

array2=( $(ls /var/log/*log) )

array3[0]=one
array3[1]=two
array3[2]="t h r e e"

Hope this helps
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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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