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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: weird csh thing
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Date: 7 Jan 91 22:58:38 GMT
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bagchi@eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
> $ set p = "w | tail +3 "
[...]
> shouldn't "$p" have the same effect as "w | tail +3" ?

No.  The pipe character is not interpreted specially by the shell when
you run "$p"; therefore, you are calling the "w" command with the
arguments "|", "tail", and "+3".

Try "eval $p".

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