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The printf version will give you automatic quoting making copy'n'paste really easy to test. It' also mixes well w/ a verbose option for "--verbose" or such.

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For those using zsh, you can get better quoting (and only when necessary, and handles non-printable characters and newlines better) than using printf.

run() { if dry; then echo "${(q-)@}" else "$@" fi }

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