Re: converting array to string by quoting each element for eval

[Peng Yu]

>    In any case, combining a command and its arguments in a single
>    string is almost always the wrong way to go about it.

Please compare the two scripts and see if the second one makes more sense.

/tmp$ cat not_convert_args_to_string.sh
#!/bin/bash

options="$2"
find $1 $options
echo find $1 $options
/tmp$ cat convert_args_to_string.sh
#!/bin/bash

options="$2"
cmd="find $1 $options"
eval "$cmd"
echo $cmd
/tmp$ ./not_convert_args_to_string.sh . "-type f -name '*'"
find: `./cvcd': Permission denied
find . -type f -name '*'
/tmp$ ./convert_args_to_string.sh . "-type f -name '*'"|head
find: `./cvcd': Permission denied
./.main.sh.swp
./0001e4ecf6175
./alm.log
./amt.log
./convert_args_to_string.sh
./FLEXnet/11.5.0.0 build 56285Macrovision
./FLEXnet/524288-16F7558F-328B-4dc3-BEDF-095C1F14FFF1
./FLEXnet/524288-34E9EE98-50ED-4c6c-BD0F-F539123FD064
./FLEXnet/524288-85A0F138-527D-4012-8175-79A3AEA4152E
./FLEXnet/freCqflgCxFrwiBvBiCadibCwg



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Regards,
Peng