Can I send a string to grep with commands and file names in a bash script?

Question

Is it possible to send an array variable from the command line,

(where argsGrep="$@" and the command line input is something to the extent of -i Something) to a grep command

eg

result=$(grep $argsGrep ./file)

When $argsGrep has only the term to be searched, it works just fine, but the moment it contains more than the text and has a grep command, I can't get it to work whatsoever.

Answer 1

Don't use the intermediate string. It will just break things.

Just expand "$@" at the point you need it.

If you must save the contents of "$@" for some reason then you must use another array.

argsarr=("$@")

result=$(grep "${argsarr[@]}" ./file)