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sivareddy963
sivareddy963

Reputation: 153

read multi word text from command line

When I'm writing a shell script like this:

echo -n 'Enter description of new version: ';

read desc;

git commit -m $desc;

and when I'm entering multi word description, then it is taking only one word into $desc and giving me errors as:

Enter description of new version: hope it works
error: pathspec 'it' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'works'' did not match any file(s) known to git.
fatal: too many params

and sometimes it is giving like:

Enter description of new version: final check
error: pathspec 'check'' did not match any file(s) known to git.
fatal: Failed to resolve 'check'' as a valid ref.
Everything up-to-date

What is the problem with my script?

Please suggest the cause and solution to read multi word description from command-line into the variable $desc

I've tried using:

echo -n 'Enter description of new version: ';

read text;

desc="'"$text"'";

git commit -m $desc;

But no use.

Thank you in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (1)

michas
michas

Reputation: 26555

You need to quote:

git commit -m "$desc"

The difference is the one between:

git commit -m hope it works

and 

git commit -m "hope it works"

The first tries to commit the files it and works with the message hope, while the latter commits the index with the message hope it works.

Upvotes: 3

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