Whitespace-separated assignments in Bash ($21) · Snippets

Whitespace-separated assignments in Bash

A hack to allow whitespace-separated assignments

Edited Jun 23, 2020

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Nicholas Chambers 👻 @uplime · May 01, 2020
[nickchambers@qa:~]$ . code/assign.bash [nickchambers@qa:~]$ declare -p foo -bash: declare: foo: not found [nickchambers@qa:~]$ uhoh not a command -bash: uhoh: command not found [nickchambers@qa:~]$ foo = a kitten purrito [nickchambers@qa:~]$ declare -p foo declare -- foo="a kitten purrito"
``` [nickchambers@qa:~]$ . code/assign.bash [nickchambers@qa:~]$ declare -p foo -bash: declare: foo: not found [nickchambers@qa:~]$ uhoh not a command -bash: uhoh: command not found [nickchambers@qa:~]$ foo = a kitten purrito [nickchambers@qa:~]$ declare -p foo declare -- foo="a kitten purrito" ```

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