Hm... mabye it will be easier to un 1

[andste]

Hm... mabye it will be easier to understand if put it like this:

> set cmd {ls -al}

then I want to execute that command, but not using exec (since that doesnt work for my specific commands).

What's annoying is that ls -al works really fine if i type it in myself at the prompt. But i dosen't work if I do:

> set $cmd {ls -al}
> $cmd

 

[smugindividual]

ugg I just got what you are trying to say. Thats a pretty messed up problem, not sure why its happening. But I was able to get ls-al to run from my prompt but heres what i had to do:

>set cmd ls
>set option -al
>$cmd $option


what a pain

 

[marsd]

Please try eval.
This is a very common problem btw, and is usually handled
by eval like constructs in other languages too.

set cmd "ls -al"
eval $cmd