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Bash Version: 3.1 Patch Level: 17 Release Status: release Description: my script has an option in which it receives a command file's name and a pattern of arguments to invoked the command with; at some stages of the script, the pattern is analyzed and a list of arguments for the command is created; now, to launch the command, I have found that the following line is applicable: eval "\"$CMDFILE\" $list" because i need $CMDFILE to receive more than one argument; but what happens is that if in the script's option's arguments, there are substrings like $i, those variable are expanded, if they exist, at the moment of `eval'; also other commands can be launched, through the control operators '&&', ';' etc. avoiding control operators seems to work with the following line: ( eval exec "\"$CMDFILE\" $list" ) but still, there takes place unwanted parameter expansion; Fix: so what I think of as a solution is either a flag to the `set' builtin to disable parameter expansion and one to ignore control operators, or a flag to `eval' itself, with the same intention Does this seem reasonable? Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash