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A shell variable assignment cannot contain unescaped whitespace in its value unless that whitespace is escaped with a backslash or the value is enclosed in quotes. Escaping each space with a backslash (text=olaf\ is\ home) produces the literal string 'olaf is home', and enclosing the value in double quotes (text="olaf is home") preserves the spaces as part of the single value assigned to text. Both are standard, valid ways to assign a multi-word string to a shell variable.