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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pass command as a function parameter Post 302509661 by marouanix on Thursday 31st of March 2011 11:43:54 AM
Old 03-31-2011
Pass command as a function parameter
Hi guys,
can someome help with this question, I have defined a function that takes a command as a parameter, but when the command is executed from the function it will throw errors because what I believe is a special character escaping issue. I tried using the backslash to escape the pipe | and > signs but still got the same error
Code:
function execlocal {
        echo "Running CMD:\"$*\""
        $*
        STATUS=$?
}

CMD='ls -l | grep pl > out 2>&1'
execlocal $CMD

 
error: 
ls: \|: No such file or directory

can someome help please?
my shell is bash.

Thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-31-2011 at 12:48 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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