BASH question: executing a cmd with a pipe that is in a variable

[Bruce Dawson]

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Larry Cook wrote:

| I'm being stupid!  Can someone please help?
|
| I've got a BASH script with the following:
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| CMD="zcat myfile | tar xf -" $CMD

You want "eval $CMD".

| This puts zcat's output to stdout, rather than piping it to tar
| like I want. Now I'm sure this is how it *should* work. :-(
| Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get it to work like I
| want.
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| Thanks, Larry _______________________________________________
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