On 02/22/2012 11:14 AM, Petr Mladek wrote: > eval `sed -e 's|=\(.\+\)|=\"\1\"|' config_host.mk` eval $(sed -e s/\'/\'\\\\\'\'/g -e 's/=\(.\+\)/='\''\1'\'/ config_host.mk) would be safer (just in case any of the values are not invariant under double quote expansion) ;) Stephan