Passing bash array as options into executable command

I have this simplified command, executed in a .bashrc function:

aws sso login --profile myprofile --cli-read-timeout 5

I’m trying to replace the command options with an array of options:

params=('--profile myprofile')
params+=('--cli-read-timeout 5')
aws sso login "${params[*]}"

AWS complains about unknown options:

usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [<subcommand> ...] [parameters]
To see help text, you can run:

  aws help
  aws <command> help
  aws <command> <subcommand> help

Unknown options: --profile myprofile --cli-read-timeout 5

What is the correct format to be used in order to properly execute the command?

>Solution :

The option name and its argument must be separate array elements.

params=('--profile' 'myprofile')
params+=('--cli-read-timeout' '5')
aws sso login "${params[@]}"

or you can use --option=value syntax:

params=('--profile=myprofile')
params+=('--cli-read-timeout=5')
aws sso login "${params[@]}"

Also, you must use ${params[@]} rather than ${params[*]} so that each array element will be expanded to a separate word.

Your code is equivalent to combining all the parameters into a single argument:

aws sso login '--profile myprofile --cli-read-timeout 5'