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Incidentally, assignments with expansion (as you show here) is one place where quotes are optional...

gniourf_gniourf
– gniourf_gniourf

2013-12-07 18:59:33 +00:00
Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 18:59
While this is good advice, and a lack of quotes around a substitution is probably the cause of the problem (I didn't sift through the meandering, badly formatted, hard-to-follow question to see precisely where the problem is), you've picked one place where the quotes are not necessary. You don't need double quotes in places where the shell expects a single word, such as in an assignment or after case.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2013-12-08 22:16:55 +00:00
Commented Dec 8, 2013 at 22:16

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