How to read input with spaces in a shell script?

Question

This is my shell script,which needs to execute any type of command same as terminal,

#!/bin/sh
while
    echo "Reading ..."
    read option
    echo "Its MS : $option"
do
    $option
done

But is not accepting the command which has space in their arguments. like mkdir new\\ folder .

So someone help how to arguments with space..

Answer 1

For me, your script works just fine. The problem you describe comes from something else: Make sure not to use Backslashes for your directories:

Replace mkdir new\\ folder with mkdir new/folder , that worked for me.

Make also sure not to have a space within the path to your folder: Not new /folder , rather use new/folder , since mkdir tries to create two folders if you have that space, one in the directory / , another one in your current directory.

Your code works well, but for me it fails if I try to plug in sudo commands.