weird csh thing

[Marc Unangst]

bagchi at eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
> $ set p = "w | tail +3 "
[...]
> shouldn't "$p" have the same effect as "w | tail +3" ?

No.  The pipe character is not interpreted specially by the shell when
you run "$p"; therefore, you are calling the "w" command with the
arguments "|", "tail", and "+3".

Try "eval $p".

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