Re: Bash Scripting Problem

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` not '

COMMAND=`ls "test dir 1"`

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Thomas Kappelmueller
<tkappelmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I hope this place is ok to ask this question.
> I am using Fedora 8.
>
> Example:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> COMMAND='ls "test dir 1"'
>
> $COMMAND #have tried $($COMMAND), '$COMMAND'
>
> It always cuts it in half at the spaces.
>
> Error msg:
> ls: cannot access "test: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access dir: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access 1": No such file or directory
>
> What am i not seeing?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> -T
>
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