08-08-2012
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Originally Posted by
majest
The reason for using eval $mycommand is so that other users can edit the top of the script where exclude and include are defined rather than having to read through the code.
But why are you using it? What function does it perform that
tar by itself couldn't? You don't even need eval to expand wildcards, the shell does that when evaluating any unquoted variable.
Try $mycommand without the eval.
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