Re: tokenize honoring quotes

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/5/22 1:43 PM, Robert E. Griffith wrote:
> Is there an efficient native bash way to tokenize a string into an array 
> honoring potentially nested double and single quotes?
>
> For example...
>
>     $ str='echo "hello world"'

Some variant of this:

str='echo "hello world"'

declare -a a
eval a=\( "$str" \)

declare -p a


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