Question

I want to display what I’m running, but when the commands contain space parameter, it failed.

#!/bin/bash
go() {
  echo "*** $*"
  $* || exit 1
}
go make NAME="Hi Here"

That will get wrong behavior like

make NAME=Hi Here

Is there any better method to improve the go() function?

Answer 1

Replace $* with “$@”:

#!/bin/bash
go() {
  echo "*** $*"
  "$@" || exit 1
}
go make NAME="Hi Here"