Reading quoted/escaped arguments correctly from a string

Question

I\'m encountering an issue passing an argument to a command in a Bash script.

poc.sh:

#!/bin/bash

ARGS=\'\"hi there\" test\'
./swap ${ARGS}
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Answer 1

This might not be the most robust approach, but it is simple, and seems to work for your case:

## demonstration matching the question
$ ( ARGS='"hi there" test' ; ./swap ${ARGS} )
there" "hi

## simple solution, using 'xargs'
$ ( ARGS='"hi there" test' ; echo ${ARGS} |xargs ./swap )
test hi there