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As a intermediate step I want to produce one line per string in '' with below script

#!/usr/bin/env/ bash

TOMCAT_OFF=('16:00 19.01.2023' '16:00 21.02.2023' '16:00 15.02.2023')


for i in ${TOMCAT_OFF[@]}
do
    echo "${i}"
done

I am getting one line for time + one line for date though (so total 6 instead of 3). I tried various delimiters ('', "", ``) as well as throwing in an escape \ prior the devisive space (like '16:00\ 01.01.2023').

Nothing worked thus far though. How can I have bash to interpret a string with spaces as one entity of that list?

vrms
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    You need "${TOMCAT_OFF[@]}", with the quotes to prevent wordsplitting and globbing, and to get the array elements intact. (The quotes don't tie all the values together here, arrays with [@] are an exception.) Don't put quotes inside your data, they're syntax elements, and trying to mix those with data is almost always a mistake. – ilkkachu Dec 27 '22 at 17:37
  • for i in "${TOMCAT_OFF[@]}" to be precise (you left the $ out) – vrms Dec 27 '22 at 17:40
  • Still had time to edit! But yeah, mistyped that, sorry – ilkkachu Dec 27 '22 at 17:42

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