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It Appears Safe to Unquote for Shell Loop Var

The following is proof:

#!/bin/sh
port='56 56 345 hello;ls;'
for p in $port; do
  echo "$p";
done

The echo obviously needs quotes. But it’s not so obvious that $port doesn’t need them, and, in fact, can’t have them if you want it to do what it’s suppose to do (split on whitespace or IFS). And shellcheck confirms.

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