I'd like to be able to store a bunch of args in bash that I want to use in a bunch of different curl commands. However, my attempts so far haven't worked in the case where the arguments have spaces in them.
I made a simple bash script to replicate the issue, getopts.sh:
#!/bin/bash
while getopts ":a:b:c:" opt; do
case $opt in
a)
echo "-a was triggered, Parameter: $OPTARG" >&2
;;
b)
echo "-b was triggered, Parameter: $OPTARG" >&2
;;
c)
echo "-c was triggered, Parameter: $OPTARG" >&2
;;
\?)
echo "Invalid option: -$OPTARG" >&2
exit 1
;;
:)
echo "Option -$OPTARG requires an argument." >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
done
The end result I wanna get is being able to call this script in the following manner, and work as expected:
OPTS="-a foo -b bar -c baz"
./getopts.sh $OPTS -d foo
./getopts.sh $OPTS -e bar
I called this in a few different ways:
[julius@julius getopts]$ OPTS="-a foo -b bar -c baz"
[julius@julius getopts]$ ./getopts.sh $OPTS
-a was triggered, Parameter: foo
-b was triggered, Parameter: bar
-c was triggered, Parameter: baz
The first one works just as expected, however, things go south fast:
[julius@julius getopts]$ OPTS="-a foo -b bar -c \"aaa bbb\""
[julius@julius getopts]$ ./getopts.sh $OPTS
-a was triggered, Parameter: foo
-b was triggered, Parameter: bar
-c was triggered, Parameter: "aaa
I expected the c argument to be aaa bbb, however, I got "aaa
Escaping the space didn't help either:
[julius@julius getopts]$ OPTS="-a foo -b bar -c aaa\ bbb"
[julius@julius getopts]$ ./getopts.sh $OPTS
-a was triggered, Parameter: foo
-b was triggered, Parameter: bar
-c was triggered, Parameter: aaa\
Heredoc is the same:
[julius@julius getopts]$ read -d '' OPTS << EOF
> -a foo
> -b bar
> -c "aaa bbb"
> EOF
[julius@julius getopts]$ ./getopts.sh $OPTS
-a was triggered, Parameter: foo
-b was triggered, Parameter: bar
-c was triggered, Parameter: "aaa
Is there a way to specify a bunch of getopt options together in a variable for reuse in bash? Why don't the above work?
