How to assign a string with multiple spaces to a variable in bash? [closed]

Question

First its not like this question How do I echo a string with multiple spaces in bash “untouched”? [duplicate] because in that question he just want to print it and I want to assign it to variable and save it. I've tried this:

SPACE='  '
VAR="$VAR1${SPACE}$VAR2"

Answer 1

You're just missing the closing double quote:

$ var1=Hello
$ SPACE='  '
$ VAR2=Wissam
$ VAR="$var1${SPACE}$VAR2"
$ echo "${VAR}"
Hello  Wissam

Note that variable names are case-sensitive too.

Answer 2

Also since I don't entirely agree with the first answer, here is how I'd do it

var1="Hello"
spaces=10  # a dynamic value
var2="Wissam"
printf -v var3 "%s%$((${#var1} + spaces))s" "$var1" "$var2"
printf "%s\n" "$var3"

Answer 3

You can also do it this way:

$ v1="abc def"
$ v2="   "
$ v3="ghi jkl"
$ v4="$v1""$v2""$v3"
$ echo "$v4"
abc def   ghi jkl