passing a string to a function that has white space

Question

Please help me with the below functionality. I need to pass a function in the form of an argument to another function. In the second function one of the parameter has space in the string.

function funct_1
{       
        echo $1
        echo $2
        ${3}
}

function funct_2
{
    echo $1
    echo $2
    echo $3
}

funct_1 first second 'funct_2 first second "first second"'

Expected Result -

first 
second
first
second
first second

Thanks a lot . The explanation helped me to understand the problem. — Pulakesh Dev Das, Oct 24 '16 at 02:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '16 at 11:58

1

Try eval:

function funct_1
{
        echo $1
        echo $2
        eval ${3}
}

function funct_2
{
    echo $1
    echo $2
    echo $3
}

funct_1 first second 'funct_2 first second "first second"'

answered Oct 23 '16 at 11:58

Luis de Arquer

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Perfectly worked. Thanks for the quick answer. With the -x option I did understand what was actually happening and eval did the trick. Thanks again – Pulakesh Dev Das Oct 24 '16 at 02:57

passing a string to a function that has white space

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