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    A stricter, standard conformant way would be sh -c 'echo $1' echo foo Commented Jan 5, 2016 at 16:33
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    sh -c 'echo "$@"' fnord a b c d ... Commented Jan 5, 2016 at 17:43
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    IMHO the explanation was quite good, but sh -c 'echo $0' foo is not the best option, taking into account that the questioner already know that /bin/sh -c 'echo foo; echo bar' works, you can simply answer quoting the command /bin/sh -c 'echo foo' Commented Jan 5, 2016 at 18:01
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    @ X3MBoy The questioner already know that /bin/sh -c 'echo foo' works fine. He wanted to echo something outside that , which i explained Commented Jan 5, 2016 at 18:18
  • @IjazAhmadKhan what if I want to execute some command with sh -c something like this: sh -c test.py arg1 arg2 arg3 ? Secondly what if arg3 contains something like "/export/local/repo/ab#cd.rpm" , how can I handle # in this case ? Commented Apr 17, 2020 at 10:51