Bash tokenizing quoted string with spaces as individual words

Question

I\'m trying to execute the following commands:

mkdir \'my dir\'
CMD=\"ls \'my dir\'\"
RESULT=$($CMD)

This results in:

ls: \'my:         


        

Answer 1

Solution 1: Use sh -c

mkdir 'my dir'
CMD="ls 'my dir'" # careful: your example was missing a '
RESULT=$(sh -c "$CMD")

Solution 2: Declare CMD as an array

mkdir 'my dir'
CMD=(ls 'my dir') # array with 2 elements
RESULT=$("${CMD[@]}")