I believe that would be better as an array but I'm not sure what you're feeding that info to. Either way I'd do it such as follows:
declare -a whiteList=(
"/Applications/Automator.app"
"/Applications/Calculator.app"
"/Applications/Calendar.app"
"/Applications/Chess.app"
"/Applications/Contacts.app"
"/Applications/DVD Player.app"
"/Applications/Dashboard.app"
"/Applications/Dictioinary.app"
"/Applications/FaceTime.app"
"/Applications/Font Book.app"
)
Then use the variable $whiteList in your script against any commands you want to run, as in:
for i in "${whiteList[@]}"
do
/some/thing/here $i
done
As an example, this is a snippet from a script that uses rsync to backup data from my Mac Mini to FreeNAS at home.
# Include
declare -a iList=(
"$HOME/Documents/MyDocs"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Dock"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Bookmarks"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3"
"$HOME/Library/Keychains"
"$HOME/Library/Logs"
"$HOME/Library/StickiesDatabase"
"$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist"
"$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist"
"$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist"
)
# Exclude
declare -a eList=(
".DS_Store"
"$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Extensions"
)
# Backup starting.
echo "======== Starting @ "$(date "+%H:%M:%S %Y/%m/%d")" ====="
echo "===="
echo "=="
# Rsync
for i in "${iList[@]}"
do
/usr/bin/rsync -avzEh --delete --stats --exclude="$eList" "$i" "$theDestination"
done
