I’ve been writing a little bash script to wrap up the functionality in the JIRA CLI, and i’d noticed that sometimes, my script was spitting out the following error:
sh.exe": [: too many arguments
The code in question was:
j () {
if [ -z $3 ]; then
echo jira --action progressIssue --issue "$1" --step "$2";
...
...
It turns out the problem was that the variable $3 in the second line was being substituted directly into the if statement, without being quote delimited. So Bash is treating any input in $3 with spaces as multiple arguments (hence the "too many arguments" error). Duh.
Solution is to quote the $3 variable in the conditional to treat it as a single argument. Shouldn't make this mistake again...
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