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		zeroimpl on May 15, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Safe ways to do things in bash You just add quotes around $dir. Bash understands the quotes properly/recursively. `parent_dir = "$(basename "$dir")"`

codedokode on May 15, 2018 [–]

So I finally found the answer. Thanks.

8xde0wcNwpslOw on May 15, 2018 | [–]

Bear in mind (pointed by the article as well) that variable assignment doesn't allow spaces around the equals sign, and that in this case the outer parentheses are unnecessary anyway.

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