in other words shell separates between spaces and quotes u need quoting right, otherwise its flat args or one arg if quoted not right
arr=( -arg{1,2,3} ) cmd "${arr[@]}" tells to pass every arr member with quotes On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 11:42 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > args=( -append "opt with spaces" ) > cmd "${args[@]}" other_arg > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 11:33 ju nan <kfg...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> I hava run into some troubles when I use bash shell to execute qemu, here >> is the log. >> >> >> >> 1. Run qemu with arguments directly in bash shell, I use strace to >> track execve syscall, everything goes well >> >> junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ strace >> qemu-system-riscv64 -nographic -machine virt -kernel >> ../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Image -append "root=/dev/vda ro >> console=ttyS0" -drive file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0 -device >> virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 >> execve("/usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64", ["qemu-system-riscv64", >> "-nographic", "-machine", "virt", "-kernel", >> "../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Im"..., "-append", "root=/dev/vda ro >> console=ttyS0", "-drive", "file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0", "-device", >> "virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0"], 0x7ffc39cda858 /* 58 vars */) = 0 >> brk(NULL) = 0x55bb77e20000 >> arch_prctl(0x3001 /* ARCH_??? */, 0x7ffd61474450) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid >> argument) >> access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or >> directory) >> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 >> >> >> 1. But when I use bash variables to do it again, something wired >> happend, as you can see, the argument "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0" is >> splited into different parts, so qemu did not start successfully 😋 >> >> >> junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ echo $QEMU >> qemu-system-riscv64 >> junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ echo $QOPTIONS >> -nographic -machine virt -kernel ../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Image >> -append "root=/dev/vda ro console=ttyS0" -drive >> file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 >> >> junan@u0:~/Documents/coding/run-riscv-qemu-linux$ strace $QEMU $QOPTIONS >> execve("/usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64", ["qemu-system-riscv64", >> "-nographic", "-machine", "virt", "-kernel", >> "../linux-5.11/arch/riscv/boot/Im"..., "-append", "\"root=/dev/vda", "ro", >> "console=ttyS0\"", "-drive", "file=root.ext4,format=raw,id=hd0", "-device", >> "virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0"], 0x7ffe1e71a928 /* 58 vars */) = 0 >> brk(NULL) = 0x5613dfdc4000 >> >> >> Thank you all for making so many excellent softwares, and I wish this >> will help to improve the bash shell 😊. >> >