Hi, I hope it's OK to ask questions here (the Gnu Bash FAQ seems to say
it's OK).
Values in the variable $@ can be extracted in a for loop in a way to
preserve individual strings that may have white space. For example:
#!/bin/bash
for x in "$@" ; do
echo $x
done
When called as ./doit a "b c" d
the output is
a
b c
d
Is there a way to a similar for loop that processes a variable other than
$@ in the same way? For example:
XXX='a "b c" d'
for x in $XXX ; do
echo $x
done
That does not work as desired, nor does putting "$XXX" within quotes do
the trick (obviously). Is there a way?
Bob
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