Bash quoted array expansion

Question

WHen I write a bash program I typically construct calls like follows:

declare -a mycmd=( command.ext \"arg1 with space\" arg2 thing etc )

\"${mycmd[@]}\" || ech         


        

Answer 1

How about declare -p quotedarray?

-- edit --

Acctually, declare -p quotedarray will satisfy you purpose well. If you insist on the output format of the result, then I have a small trick would do the work, but just for the indexed array not associative one.

declare -a quotedarray=(1 2 "3 4")
temparray=( "${quotedarray[@]/#/\"}" ) #the outside double quotes are critical
echo ${temparray[@]/%/\"}