Use printf in apply_shell_expansion

[xdg-ninja.git] / xdg-ninja.sh

diff --git a/xdg-ninja.sh b/xdg-ninja.sh
index b65844d55ae210c5a51de38e67f23ed293b752e6..59d9dc41f9e6a2eb460847220745bcb8b7a44b7c 100755 (executable)
--- a/xdg-ninja.sh
+++ b/xdg-ninja.sh
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ printf "\n"
 # Function to expand environment variables in string
 # https://stackoverflow.com/a/20316582/11110290
 apply_shell_expansion() {
-    declare data="$1"
-    declare delimiter="__apply_shell_expansion_delimiter__"
-    declare command="cat <<$delimiter"$'\n'"$data"$'\n'"$delimiter"
+    data="$1"
+    delimiter="__apply_shell_expansion_delimiter__"
+    command=$(printf "cat <<%s\n%s\n%s" "$delimiter" "$data" "$delimiter")
     eval "$command"
 }