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@drysdalk:
Thank you for your answer. Your example works as expected. Unfortunately your suggestion is a bit different from my desired solution ;-)

Beside one centralized script which defines $LZ...

I have this code


#!/bin/bash

LZ () {
RETVAL="\n$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S) --- "
return RETVAL
}

echo -e $LZ"Test"
sleep 3
echo -e $LZ"Test"


which I want to use to make logentrys...

Thank you very much for your help.

Double quotes solved my problem...

I have really big problems with two spaces. I tried to simplify my problem as much as possible. I have made a script to understand my problem:

#!/bin/bash
VAR='/path/with/two spaces'
echo...