Simulated Execution of Redirections

My shell is the Korn Shell, but I think the problem (and its eventual remedy) applies to other shells as well. I usually build a "simulation mode" into my scripts to test potentially destructive/state-changing commands up front. Like this: # export SIMULATE='print -' [...] $SIMULATE /path/to/hazardous_command When the first line is uncommented the command is not executed but only printed instead. The problem I have is: if the command in question involves some redirection this won't work: $SIMULATE /path/to/hazardous_command > /path/to/file 2>/path/to/other_file Is there any elegant(!) solution I haven't been thinking of as now? I know I could do: if [ -n "$SIMULATE" ] ; then $SIMULATE "/path/to/hazardous_command > /path/to/file 2>/path/to/other_file" else /path/to/hazardous_command > /path/to/file 2>/path/to/other_file fi but this is not really making the code clearer and I would prefer a "plug-in" solution of some sorts, although up to now I came up short. I have also thought about (uncomment either of the export-statements): # export SIMULATE='eval ' # export SIMULATE='print -' [...] $SIMULATE "/path/to/hazardous_command >/path/to/file 2>/path/to/other_file" this would work but this replaces the problem of the redirections with the problem of the quotes: what if the command in question involves quoted strings? Escaping the quotes would work, but ultimately I would still have to maintain two different versions of the command (one to be printed, one to be executed). So, has anybody an idea how to overcome this?