Help setting variable from file contents with spaces

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I suppose the easiest way to explain my problem is to show you some code and then show you what the code outputs:

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#!/bin/bash
echo "This line has spaces" > "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt"

export Foo=$(cat "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt")

VarName=Bar
export $VarName=$(cat "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt")

echo $Foo
echo $Bar
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This is the output:

This line has spaces
This

How do I get the "Bar" variable to output the full string?

Thanks so much!

2

It might help if u were to explain what you were trying to accomplish and I might be able to help further. However, in the examples you outlined try adding the following lines at the beginning of the script :

CFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo)

and then add the following at the end of the script to set the IFS (Internal Field Separator) back.

IFS=$CFS

Should look like this
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#!/bin/bash
CFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo)

echo "This line has spaces" > "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt"

export Foo=$(cat "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt")

VarName=Bar
export $VarName=$(cat "/tmp/This Filename Has Spaces.txt")

echo $Foo
echo $Bar

IFS=$CFS

Output will look like this :

This line has spaces
This line has spaces

3

It would be a long story for me to explain what I'm doing, but what you said worked! Thank you!

From your post, I learned that IFS stands for "Internal Field Separator", but what about "CFS"?

Thanks again!

4

CFS is just a variable I created to hold the current internal field separator (hence CFS - - current field separator) before I set it to $echo. And then it's used to set the IFS back to it's original setting (IFS=$CFS).

5

Ah, that makes sense. You were a big help! Thanks!