Re: [Help-bash] storing a command in a variable

[Roman Rakus]

On 04/12/2013 08:14 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Often I do something like
>
> cmd="command arg"
> echo "${cmd}" >>my_log
> eval "${cmd}" 2>&1 >>my_log
>
> and many times I have read on this list that storing a command in a 
> variable is a bad thing to do
> What is a better/safer way of doing this
>
> Richard
log()
{
  printf '%s\n' "$@"
} >>my_log

log 'some command and fancy parameters and $(substitutions) and > 
redirection'
some command and fancy parameters and $(substitutions) and > redirection

or something similar.

RR