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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting quoting hell - help needed!! Post 302590513 by lbe on Monday 16th of January 2012 02:42:42 PM
Old 01-16-2012
Sorry, no go either. Once function exec_cum a multi-word gets parsed to '"Development' 'Libraries"'

---------- Post updated at 01:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:03 PM ----------

Thanks to all of you who are trying to help.

The following is a small test that you can run on your system, as long as it has yum installed, to replicate my problem and test your recommendation. Instead of performing a groupinstall, it will just list information about the group when working Smilie

Code:
#!/bin/bash -x
function exec_cmd {
        local CMD="$1"
        local OUT
        OUT=`$CMD`
        return 0
}
 
for i in Xfce 'Development Libraries' 'Development Tools' 
do
        CMD="yum groupinfo \"$i\""
        exec_cmd "$CMD"
done

Thanks again!
 

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