Re: [Help-bash] pass command to script

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/26/19 10:48 AM, Warlich, Christof wrote:

> Now let's assume we had some nestable quoting mechanism similar to the
> already suggested $[...]. Then, escaping would not be necessary at all, 
> right?:
> 
> $ bash -c $[echo "hi"]  
> hi
> $ bash -c $[bash -c $[echo "hi"]]
> hi
> $ bash -c $[bash -c $[bash -c $[echo "hi"]]]
> hi
> 
> Passing _such_ a command line to a script would merely require to wrap this
> command with another $[...] without the need to modify anything _inside_
> that command line!

You're just introducing another quoting character with slightly different
semantics that requires a separate escaping mechanism (and $[] is not
available, as previously noted).

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