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I'm trying to run a command in a bash variable, like this:

cmd="python -m mymodule 'argument 123 456' argument2=32 argument3=234"
$cmd

cmd="python -m mymodule 'argument 123 456' argument2=32 argument3=234"
$cmd

It looks like it is splitting the command line arguments in the first string even though it is surrounded with single quotes:

['argument', '123', '456', 'argument2=32', 'argument3=234']

['argument', '123', '456', 'argument2=32', 'argument3=234']

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I've tried to use esacped double-quotes \", backticks `, but nothing works, it will still split the first command line argument on the spaces.

I'm trying to run a command in a bash variable, like this:

cmd="python -m mymodule 'argument 123 456' argument2=32 argument3=234"
$cmd

It looks like it is splitting the command line arguments in the first string even though it is surrounded with single quotes:

['argument', '123', '456', 'argument2=32', 'argument3=234']

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I've tried to use esacped double-quotes \", backticks `, but nothing works, it will still split the first command line argument on the spaces.

I'm trying to run a command in a bash variable, like this:

cmd="python -m mymodule 'argument 123 456' argument2=32 argument3=234"
$cmd

It looks like it is splitting the command line arguments in the first string even though it is surrounded with single quotes:

['argument', '123', '456', 'argument2=32', 'argument3=234']

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I've tried to use esacped double-quotes \", backticks `, but nothing works, it will still split the first command line argument on the spaces.

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Prevent splitting command line argument at spaces when running in bash script

I'm trying to run a command in a bash variable, like this:

cmd="python -m mymodule 'argument 123 456' argument2=32 argument3=234"
$cmd

It looks like it is splitting the command line arguments in the first string even though it is surrounded with single quotes:

['argument', '123', '456', 'argument2=32', 'argument3=234']

Is there anything I can do to prevent this? I've tried to use esacped double-quotes \", backticks `, but nothing works, it will still split the first command line argument on the spaces.