On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo <nospaze at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. See this: > > # A="echo 'hi'" > > # echo $($A) > 'hi' That seems rather convoluted. Are you sure you don't just want to "eval $A" anyway? I realize your example may be a simple abstraction of something more complex. John