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Re: [PLUG] Building a command from variables in BASH
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- From: Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig97.list@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Building a command from variables in BASH
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:34:07 -0400
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:40 PM, sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
>> Would escaping the $'s provide a possible simple solution to a not too
>> complex line, if they were serving only as variable holders and did
>> not need to be resolved before the eval?
>
> in that case you wouldn't need eval.
>
> eval foo \$bar
>
> is the same as plain ol'
>
> foo $bar
The original poster had pipes he was dealing with, and to execute that
string, you would need eval. If there was a var that possibly could
have a quote or something in it, couldn't it be escaped so as to
produce the intended result?
eval "foo \$bar | foo2"
This looks the same as just foo $bar | foo2, but if it's in a variable
(like the poster was doing) with a string that needs to be parsed
then.....
SOMEVAR="foo \$bar | foo2"
eval "$SOMEVAR"
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