[Carpetsmoker]

j65nko:

Yes, this works when echoing, but not with cdialog:

[~]% cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh

var="\"I am Label\" \"I am Text\""

cdialog --menu 'Hello World' 10 40 9 ${var}

echo ${var}

[~]% sh test.sh
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Hello World                          │
│ ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │          "I      am              │ │
│ │          Label"  "I              │ │
│ │          am      Text"           │ │
│ └──────────────────────────────────┘ │
├──────────────────────────────────────┤
│       <  OK  >    <Cancel>           │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

"I am Label" "I am Text"

cdialog weirdness or cdialog weirdness? I suspect sh weirdness ...

@graudeejs Other tools aren't available in this environment and are not an solution in this case. Trust me, if it would be, I would use them.