inotifywait in bash script: space

From	"B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	inotifywait in bash script: space
Date	2017-12-02 17:30 +0100
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Dear all,

not a Debian specific question, but I hope to get an answer here...

I try to use inotifywait in a bash script to block until a file in a directory 
gets changed. Then the script should continue. That's working well unless the 
path I hand over to inotifywait contains spaces.

I already tried to escape them like so:

  MYCOMMAND = "inotifywait  -qqr -e create \"$MYDIR\""

where MYDIR is something like "/tmp/test dir" but although echo shows the 
command correctly and putting the very same command in a shell just works, as 
part of my script it doesn't work. (I don't want to get paths back from 
inotifywait.)

Thanks for any pointers towards clarification and help.

Best,
Bernd

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inotifywait in bash script: space "B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch> - 2017-12-02 17:30 +0100
  Re: inotifywait in bash script: space "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-12-02 18:00 +0100
  Re: inotifywait in bash script: space "B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch> - 2017-12-03 20:20 +0100
  Re: inotifywait in bash script: space davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-12-06 01:20 +0100

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