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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne shell dosen't seem to rescan for quotes in variables.
Message-ID: <8054@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 02:11:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.8054
Posted: Fri Aug 21 02:11:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 16:14:47 EDT
References: <182@ksr.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <182@ksr.UUCP> benson@seagoon.ksr.com (Benson Margulies) writes:
[given]

>   FOO="my_command -P\"big dog\""
>   exec $FOO
>my_command gets called with argv[1] = -P"big and
>argv[2] = dog"
>whereas I want it to be called with one argument.

Use

	eval exec $FOO

to make sh rescan the expansion.
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