Updated SC2046 (markdown)

Vidar Holen
2020-04-22 19:04:54 -07:00
parent eb3fa1455c
commit 10e1694d50

@@ -27,24 +27,15 @@ If the command substitution outputs multiple pieces of data, use a loop instead.
In rare cases you actually want word splitting, such as in In rare cases you actually want word splitting, such as in
# shellcheck disable=SC2046
gcc $(pkg-config --libs openssl) client.c gcc $(pkg-config --libs openssl) client.c
This is because `pkg-config` outputs `-lssl -lcrypto`, which you want to break up by spaces into `-lssl` and `-lcrypto`. An alternative is to put the variables to an array and expand it: This is because `pkg-config` outputs `-lssl -lcrypto`, which you want to break up by spaces into `-lssl` and `-lcrypto`.
# For bash A bash alternative in these cases is to use `read -a` for words or `mapfile` for lines. ksh can also use `read -a`, or a `while read` loop for lines. In this case, since `pkg-config` outputs words, you could use:
mapfile -t args < <(pkg-config --libs openssl)
# For ksh # Read words into an array in bash and ksh
pkg-config --libs openssl | while IFS="" read -r line; do array+=("$line"); done read -ra args < <(pkg-config --libs openssl)
# expand args # expand args
gcc "${args[@]}" client.c gcc "${args[@]}" client.c
The power of using an array becomes evident when you want to combine, for example, the command result with user-provided arguments:
compile () {
args=( "$(pkg-config --libs openssl)" "${@}" )
gcc "${args[@]}" client.c
}
compile -DDEBUG
+ gcc -lssl -lcrypto -DDEBUG client.c