Invoking a command line with spaces from a variable in a Bash script [duplicate]

Answer 1

You may also use ... | xargs bash -c '...' to reparse a string as command line arguments. (Using xargs may, however, not be the ideal solution for multiple platforms.)

# Example: find file names with a space
c=". -maxdepth 3 -name \"* *\""
printf '%s' "$c" | xargs bash -c 'set -xv; find "$@"' arg0 2>&1| less

Another option would be to use a shebang helper like shebang.c!