Command line works in terminal but not in a variable under bash

Question

The following command line works both in Terminal and when called in a bash script:

cd /home/user/Schreibtisch/Tor_FF/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/ && TOR_FORCE_NET_CONFIG=0 ./start-tor-browser --allow-remote

However, when I put the command line in bash into a variable, I get an error message when using the variable.

variable="cd /home/user/Schreibtisch/Tor_FF/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/ && TOR_FORCE_NET_CONFIG=0 ./start-tor-browser --allow-remote"

$variable

Errormessage:

cd: Too many arguments.

Answer 1

You need to run it with eval $variable, otherwise everything after cd is passed as arguments to cd.