Question

I am trying to run a program like this:

$CMD $ARGS

where $ARGS is a set of arguments with spaces. However, zsh appears to be handing off the contents of $ARGS as a single argument to the executable. Here is a specific example:

$export ARGS="localhost -p22"
$ssh $ARGS
ssh: Could not resolve hostname localhost -p22: Name or service not known

Is there a bash or zsh flag that controls this behavior?

Note that when I put this type of command in a $!/bin/sh script, it performs as expected.

Thanks,

SetJmp

Answer 1

It will work if you use eval $CMD $ARGS.