17 Mar 2005 mchirico   » (Journeyer)

Bash

eval

           $ mypipe="|"
           $ eval ls $mypipe wc
           

Did you catch that? The above statement is the same as


$ ls | wc

Where "|" is put into the variable $mypipe

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