Bash : Compare Strings With Spaces

Submitted by khairie on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 13:01
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To compare two strings that contain spaces in bash, enclose them with a double quote (e.g.  "$VAR" ). Example below:-

if [ "$VAR" == "this is a string with spaces" ]
then
    # do something
fi

Reference: http://hacktux.com/bash/string

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