Eric Blake wrote:
The eval is still reasonable, but with proper quoting:

if eval cygrunsrv ... -y tcpip "${cygwin_env}"

No, thats not true. It is impossible to safely eval arbitrary user input.
Your simple quote doesn't help much:

# x="ok;ls"
# eval echo "{$x}"

For more in depth information, read this:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/048

- Ian Kelling


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