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

[Larry Cook]

Bruce,

Thanks for the quick response and simple solution.

Larry

Bruce Dawson wrote:
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> Larry Cook wrote:
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> | I'm being stupid!  Can someone please help?
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> | I've got a BASH script with the following:
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> | CMD="zcat myfile | tar xf -" $CMD
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> You want "eval $CMD".
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> | 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.
> |
> | Thanks, Larry _______________________________________________
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