07-23-2009
Executing commands through shell variable
Hey there,
I am trying to pass a command as argument to a function.
The command shows up in $1.
Now I want to execute this command, but if I do a $1
./sample
"bla/blaprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with `bla/bla'
The code is :
#!/bin/ksh
fn()
{
$1
}
fn 'printf "bla/bla bla/bla bla bla bla bla\\n"'
Any ideas how to get it work please ?
Thanks,
Shrikant
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