env variables with spaces

[Ben Duncan]

Most of the time the space should be proceeded by a back slash ...
as in: FOO=release\ debug


Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm running into an annoying problem.  I'm taking the output from 'env' 
> and dumping it to a file (/tmp/env.out), and then running 'source 
> /tmp/env.out'.  The problem is that some of the variables in env output 
> have values assigned to them with spaces, such as:
> FOO=release debug
> 
> When source hits this, it gets confused and assumes that the ' debug' 
> portion is something separate from the value of FOO, and barfs:
> bash: release: command not found
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions how to get around this?  thanks
> 

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