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I (nearly) always quote everything to "echo", so I would do the above like:

#!/bin/bash
echo "./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 \"$2\" -c yowsup/config &"
./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 "$2" -c yowsup/config &

As it standsThe difference with @muru solution is, that there the original echo command is run "in the background" - here it's echoing to the screen in the foreground, but run as a background command. (It@muru's also doesn't show the ampersand at the end of the command.)

I (nearly) always quote everything to "echo", so I would do the above like:

#!/bin/bash
echo "./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 \"$2\" -c yowsup/config &"
./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 "$2" -c yowsup/config &

As it stands, the original echo command is run "in the background" - it's echoing to the screen in the foreground, but run as a background command. (It also doesn't show the ampersand at the end of the command.)

I (nearly) always quote everything to "echo", so I would do the above like:

#!/bin/bash
echo "./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 \"$2\" -c yowsup/config &"
./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 "$2" -c yowsup/config &

The difference with @muru solution is, that there the original echo command is run "in the background" - here it's echoing to the screen in the foreground, but run as a background command. (@muru's also doesn't show the ampersand at the end of the command.)

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wanpelaman
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I (nearly) always quote everything to "echo", so I would do the above like:

#!/bin/bash
echo "./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 \"$2\" -c yowsup/config &"
./yowsup/yowsup-cli demos --s $1 "$2" -c yowsup/config &

As it stands, the original echo command is run "in the background" - it's echoing to the screen in the foreground, but run as a background command. (It also doesn't show the ampersand at the end of the command.)