Passing a space-separated System Property via a shell script doesn't work

Question

I have this bash file:

#/bin/bash

PROP=\"-Dprop=foo bar\"

java $PROP -jar Foo.jar

So, what I want to do here is pass a space-separated li

Answer 1

Try PROP=-Dprop="foo bar" Or you could do

PROP="-Dprop=\"foo bar\""

Answer 2

You need to add the quotation marks around the shell script $ variable:

PROP="-Dprop=foo bar"

java "$PROP" -jar Foo.jar

Answer 3

Set the property as follows if there are spaces in the property value with multiple values;

PROP="-Dprop=foobar"
PROP="$PROP -DpropTwo='hello world'"

java "$PROP" -jar Foo.jar