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Re: Quoting, variable substitution and command substitution

Klaus Alexander Seistrup

2007-01-27, 7:22 am

Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:

>
> eval "$cmd"

In the given example where cmd="echo abc | grep abc" it makes no
difference whether $cmd is enclosed in quotation marks or not, but
of course, if you want to generalize you should enclose variables
etc. in quotation marks.

Cheers,

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Klaus Alexander Seistrup
http://klaus.seistrup.dk/