[SLL] Simple Bash execution of string: How do I execute the string?

[Xeno Campanoli]

Steve McCarthy wrote:
> My vote:
> 
>     eval $x
> 
Yes, eval $x seems to work fine.  Thanks to everyone.

Sincerely, Xeno
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>>> I've got a simple call:
>>>
>>> curl -L -i -H 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' host
>>>
>>> which works great, but when I go:
>>>
>>> x="curl -L -i -H 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' host"
>>>
>>> (and I can check it, and it looks the same as the one that works when I
>>> go echo $x) then doing:
>>>
>>> `$x` is not working for me.  It is getting the parts of the header
>>> string as separate arguments:
>>>
>>> curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'text'
>>>
>> You are running into problems with whitespace in the command which needs to
>> be escaped.  It is splitting the -H argument into pieces.
>>
>> I think you would get something if you executed it in the command, setting
>> x to the output of the command, but I don't think this would do you much
>> good here.
>>
>> x=`curl -L -i -H 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' host`
>>
>> Bill
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