sh -c echo foo output anything?

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Apr 17, 2020 at 10:51	comment	added	Subhajit		@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 ?
Jan 26, 2017 at 12:28	history	edited	Stéphane Chazelas	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 4 characters in body
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S Jan 5, 2016 at 19:57	history	suggested	user46212	CC BY-SA 3.0	Format man page text to not wrap. Syntax hint none ofr man page text. Add shell prompt to indicate written command.
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Jan 5, 2016 at 18:18	comment	added	Ijaz Ahmad		@ X3MBoy The questioner already know that /bin/sh -c 'echo foo' works fine. He wanted to echo something outside that , which i explained
Jan 5, 2016 at 18:01	comment	added	X3MBoy		IMHO the explanation was quite good, but `sh -c 'echo $0' foo` is not the best option, taking into account that the questioner already know that `/bin/sh -c 'echo foo; echo bar'` works, you can simply answer quoting the command `/bin/sh -c 'echo foo'`
Jan 5, 2016 at 17:43	comment	added	zwol		`sh -c 'echo "$@"' fnord a b c d ...`
Jan 5, 2016 at 16:38	history	edited	Ijaz Ahmad	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 2 characters in body
Jan 5, 2016 at 16:33	history	edited	Ijaz Ahmad	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 2 characters in body
Jan 5, 2016 at 16:33	comment	added	jlliagre		A stricter, standard conformant way would be `sh -c 'echo $1' echo foo`
Jan 5, 2016 at 16:30	history	answered	Ijaz Ahmad	CC BY-SA 3.0