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Old 07-18-2008
Retain quotes from bash script arguments

Hi there,

I've been scouring these forums and have found similar threads, but none apparently helped me solved my problem Smilie

I'd like to run a command within a bash script, but that command is provided by the user to the script and may contain quotes, which is where the problem lies.

My script is (fundamentally):

-----
#!/usr/bin/bash

commandToRun="$@"

$commandToRun ~/t.txt
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And I'd like to run it using the following:

> myscript.sh grep "foo bar"

But the quotes are removed by the time I try to run that command from within the script, i.e. the $commandToRun $filename line and so it tries to run
> grep foo bar
instead of
> grep "foo bar" ~/t.txt

Thanks for any help, it would be much appreciated! Smilie

Danny
 

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