How to substitute quoted, multi-word strings as arguments?

Question

I\'m trying to substitute a string variable, containing multiple quoted words, as a parameter to a command.

Thus, given the following example script (Note the -x in

Answer 1

If you want to pass a variable value as a parameter (99% of cases on SO), simply use proper quoting:

arg="foo bar"
command "$arg"

If you want to pass several arguments, use arrays:

args=("foo bar" "baz ban" bay)
command "${args[@]}"