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Reputation: 305

How to put a filename with parenthesis in a variable, that will be used to get the md5sum of?

I've this file whose name is : 2157-15211-csv (1).csv

obviously, to get it's md5sum, i must escape the parenthesis by quoting and write

md5sum '2157-15211-csv (1).csv' : this works

But the filename comes from another process, that puts it in a variable, so my command is more like

myVar='2157-15211-csv (1).csv';md5sum $myVar

but this fails

I tried this myVar=CURRENT="'2157-15211-csv (1).csv'"

if I echo $myVar I get '2157-15211-csv (1).csv', but

md5sum $myVar still fails due to the parenthesis

Does anybody knows how to make sure md5sum works with filename that are stored in a variable and contains parenthesis ?

Thanks a lot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 892

Answers (1)

Jeremy Gurr
Jeremy Gurr

Reputation: 1623

You need to quote the variable so it comes across as a single parameter:

md5sum "$myVar"

Upvotes: 2

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