CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bashshell
user1971598
user1971598

Reputation:

Difference in behavior of directly invoking a shell script and exec it?

I have a file path to a script in a shell variable that if run it directly, it runs fine (the path has a whitespace escaped with a \ there is a white space after the \), but when I try via 

exec $script "$@"

the whitespace becomes in the script path becomes an issues and breaks the path to the script. How can I fix this? (I can't change the given path that has a whitespace in it)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 42

Answers (1)

John Kugelman
John Kugelman

Reputation: 362147

Don't put backslashes into the variable. Quote its expansion. 

script="is/already a/string"
exec "$script" "$@"

Upvotes: 4

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