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,

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

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]