On 3/1/22 15:36, Robert Nichols wrote: >> "${cmdline[@]}" > > The problem there is that the last line is going to get interpreted by > a shell before anything is executed, so you now have to escape > characters that are special to the shell within a quoted string. This > is unlike the compiled fstab-decode program that invokes the execvp() > library call and avoids further shell parsing. Does it, though? $ bash fstab-decode.sh echo '$PATH' $PATH $ bash fstab-decode.sh ls '*' ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory