[gentoo-server] menu items in dialog with variables

[Chris Smart]

Greetings,

I'm trying to write a dialog based script for my server and am having an 
issue with the menu item.

I would like to have the menu item show as TWO words. Does anyone know 
if this is possible?

I can get it to display just fine if item is only one word, ie

#!/bin/bash
menu="1 first-one 2 second-one"
dialog --menu "MENU" 20 50 16 $menu

But I want to be able to display it as:

#!/bin/bash
menu="1 first one 2 second one"
dialog --menu "MENU" 20 50 16 $menu

Unfortunately this processes the second word in the item as the next tag.
I've tried just about every escape character I can think of to group the 
two words as one, but to no avail.

Works just fine if I hardcode it with the following:

#!/bin/bash
dialog --menu "MENU" 20 50 16 1 "first one" 2 "second one"

..but I need to generate the menu list elsewhere in the script ;)

Any ideas?

Cheers!
Chris
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