if [ "$flag" != "true" ]; then
	echo "BUG: ILM expiry replication not enabled for 'siteb'"
	exit 1
fi

## Check if latest updated rules get replicated to all sites post re-enable of ILM expiry rules replication
sleep 30s
count1=$(./mc ilm rule list sitea/bucket --json | jq '.config.Rules[0].Expiration.Days')
count2=$(./mc ilm rule list siteb/bucket --json | jq '.config.Rules[0].Expiration.Days')

#
# In Bash we could simply go:
#
#   readarray ARGS < <( xargs -n1 <<<"$var" ) &&
#   set -- "${ARGS[@]}" "$@"
#
# but POSIX shell has neither arrays nor command substitution, so instead we
# post-process each arg (as a line of input to sed) to backslash-escape any
# character that might be a shell metacharacter, then use eval to reverse
# that process (while maintaining the separation between arguments), and wrap