By hungryd
i have a list of apps that i need to forcequit and, from time to time, that list changes. perfect excuse to manage a single array! however, my strings with spaces aren’t passing as i’d like them to. here’s the simple script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#-----Array
apps=( firefox-bin firefox JavaApplicationStub groupwise "Google Chrome" "Microsoft Word" )
for i in "${apps[@]}"
do
killall $i
done
exit 0
when i generate verbose feedback, i’m seeing each app in question quit EXCEPT for those with spaces. on a mac, in the command line, i have to type the following to forcequit word and chrome:
but i can’t seem to find a way to paste the correct syntax into the array to get these applications to quit as the others do. in the above script example, the result just says:
“+ for i in ‘”${apps[@]}”‘
+ killall ‘Microsoft’ Word
No matching processes were found”
any thoughts on what i might be missing?
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