Hi, B.M. wrote: > MYCOMMAND = "inotifywait -qqr -e create \"$MYDIR\""
I assume you later execute this by $MYCOMMAND (and that you have no blanks around the '='). > echo shows the command correctly Not for me. I get already riddled in dialog: $ Y="a b c" $ X="echo \"$Y\"" $ $X "a b c" Obviously "echo" sees three arguments here: "a b c" I get the expected result by $ eval "$X" a b c Still being riddled, my theory is that bash variable substitution happens after quotation mark interpretation. So the marks inserted by $X stay as they are. The command "eval" performs a full shell parser interpretation after "$X" got evaluated. (This might have other undesirable effects ... ponder ...) Have a nice day :) Thomas
