/bin/bash Proper Whitespace Handling - Whitespace Safety

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Supporting multiple command line parameters with spaces in wrapper scripts.

Bash Proper Whitespace Handling[edit]

#!/bin/bash

## https://yakking.branchable.com/posts/whitespace-safety/

set -e

app_user=user
lib_dir="/tmp/test/lib/program with space/something spacy"
main_app_dir="/tmp/test/home/user/folder with space/abc"
mkdir -p "$lib_dir"
mkdir -p "$main_app_dir"

declare -a cmd

cmd+=("cp")
cmd+=("-r")
cmd+=("${lib_dir}")
cmd+=("${main_app_dir}/")

"${cmd[@]}"

misc[edit]

base_name="${file_name##*/}"
file_extension="${base_name##*.}"
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