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cade galt
cade galt

Reputation: 4181

Bash shell is not taking the arguments in a way I would expect?

I run the script below as such

push repo "message"

However if my message has spaces in it the script will break. Obviously the interpreter, see any spaces as indication of a new argument. How can I change the behavior so that I can write a complete commit message with spaces.

push() {
  local a=$1 b=$2
  if [ $# -eq 0 ]
  then
     echo "Enter git shortname for first argument"
     return
  fi

  if [ $# -eq 1 ]
  then
      b=$(timestamp)
  fi
  build
  git add -A .
  git commit -m $b
  git push $a
  echo "push() completed."
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 75

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786091

Use proper quoting inside your function:

push() {
  local a="$1" b="$2"
  if [ $# -eq 0 ]
  then
     echo "Enter git shortname for first argument"
     return
  fi

  if [ $# -eq 1 ]
  then
      b=$(timestamp)
  fi
  build
  git add -A .
  git commit -m "$b"
  git push "$a"
  echo "push() completed."
}

Upvotes: 2

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