Using `env` command with `eval`

Question

Suppose I have this in script.sh:

env -i SOMEVAR=SOMEVALUE eval -- "$@"

I run it with:

./script.sh echo "\$SOMEVAR"

Now it shows:

env: ‘eval’: No such file or directory

I suppose it doesn't work because eval is a Bash builtin.

Any way to make env work with eval?

Answer 1

Why do you even want eval? Just use the shell:

$ cat foo.sh
#!/bin/sh
env -i SOMEVAR=SOMEVALUE  sh -c "$@"

Then you run it like this:

$ foo.sh 'echo $SOMEVAR'
SOMEVALUE