Environment Variables with spaces are truncated when written to properties file

set a CONNECT_ environment variable to a value that contains a space.  Run the docker image and inspect connect-distributed.properties.   I have distilled the issue here: #!/usr/bin/env bash export CONNECT_VAR_WITH_SPACE= "some text with spaces" echo "old way" for VAR in `env` do env_var=`echo "$VAR" | gsed -r "s/(.*)=.*/\1/g" ` if [[ $env_var =~ ^CONNECT ]]; then prop_name=`echo "$VAR" | gsed -r "s/^CONNECT_(.*)=.*/\1/g" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr _ .` echo "$prop_name=${!env_var}" fi done echo " new way" for VAR in `env` do env_var=`echo "$VAR" | gsed -r "s/(.*)=.*/\1/g" ` if [[ $env_var =~ ^CONNECT ]]; then prop_name=`echo "$VAR" | gsed -r "s/^CONNECT_(.*)=.*/\1/g" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr _ .` prop_value=`echo "$VAR" | gsed -r "s/^CONNECT_.*=(.*)/\1/g" ` echo "$prop_name=${prop_value}" fi done which outputs:   $ ./test.sh old way var .with.space=some text with spaces new way var .with.space=some