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

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 01:47:58AM +0200, John Kearney wrote:
> I normally advise
> 
> run_cmd() {
>     local RValue=0
>     printf "%q" "address@hidden"; echo
>     "address@hidden" || RValue=$?
>     [ ${RValue} = 0  ] || echo "Returned (${RValue}) ${*}"
>     return ${RValue}
> }
> 
> run_cmd command arg

The problem is that you can only run simple commands this way --
no pipelines, no compound commands.