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From: gast@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Defining special characters
Message-ID: <9421@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 02:17:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.9421
Posted: Wed Feb 26 02:17:10 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 22:26:59 EST
References: <413@wuphys.UUCP>
Reply-To: gast@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Gast)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Lines: 14
Keywords: ascii, set

In article <413@wuphys.UUCP> jmc@wuphys.UUCP writes:
>
> but it has no special character >keys e.g.  `|', ``', `@', etc.
>
>  My plan was to define these keys by setting a
>variable equal to them (e.g. set pipe=|).
>But naively doing so fails; unix recognizes it as
>the symbol `|' but not as a pipe.

In the Bourne shell this is easy:

eval comd1 $pipe comd2

David Gast