On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 05:57:44AM -0700, staticx wrote: > I wonder if I can pass the content of a bash variable as an argument to gcc. > My variable is a list of optimization options like $var="-opt1 -opt2 -opt3" > gcc $var test.c -o object.o didn't work Hi Does var="-opt1 -opt2 -opt3" gcc $(env var) test.c -o object.o work for you? Bob