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* Quoting strings
@ 2011-02-02  3:30 Anonymous bin Ich
  2011-02-02  9:30 ` Jérémie Roquet
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Anonymous bin Ich @ 2011-02-02  3:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zsh-users

Hi!

I have a string1='ls'
and string2='-l | cut -d " " -f6'

Now I create a new string3="$string1 $string2"

It all looks fine but when I try to run it via $($string3) I get:

+./working.zsh:7> '/bin/ls -l |cut -d " " -f6'
./working.zsh:7: no such file or directory: /bin/ls -l |cut -d " " -f6


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* Re: Quoting strings
  2011-02-02  3:30 Quoting strings Anonymous bin Ich
@ 2011-02-02  9:30 ` Jérémie Roquet
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jérémie Roquet @ 2011-02-02  9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zsh Users; +Cc: Anonymous bin Ich

Hi,

2011/2/2 Anonymous bin Ich <ichbinanon@gmail.com>:
> I have a string1='ls'
> and string2='-l | cut -d " " -f6'
>
> Now I create a new string3="$string1 $string2"
>
> It all looks fine but when I try to run it via $($string3) I get:
>
> +./working.zsh:7> '/bin/ls -l |cut -d " " -f6'
> ./working.zsh:7: no such file or directory: /bin/ls -l |cut -d " " -f6

You are looking for the `eval'  builtin:

$ eval $string3

Best regards,

-- 
Jérémie


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