Handling Parameters With Space Within Bash Script

Question

I got the following script:

#!/bin/bash -x
FNAME="FILE NAME"
cat ${FNAME}"

and a file

$ ls  FILE\ NAME 
FILE NAME

and no clue how to quote. Running -x gives

+ FNAME='FILE NAME'
+ cat FILE NAME
cat: FILE: No such file or directory
cat: NAME: No such file or directory

This is a testcase for running openssl with -subj containing spaces in a bash script.

There is a solution, but I can't see it.

Kind Regards Maniac

Answer 1

... does it for me too... THX!

Was sending '-subj /C=DE/ST=.../CN=dummy.domain' to openssl, which is treated as one parameter not as two as expected. My fault.