Re: Bad PIPESTATUS when using eval with a pipe stored in a variable

[Paul Jarc]

Philippe Torche <philippe.torche@jle.ch> wrote:
> aPipe='|'
> eval echo 'titi' $aPipe grep toto | grep titi

This is equivalent to:
eval "echo titi | grep toto" | grep titi

The whole eval counts as one pipeline element, regardless of what's
inside it, so the top-level pipeline is only connecting two commands.


paul