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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Array problems in CSH Post 302290696 by frijofranco on Tuesday 24th of February 2009 02:50:47 AM
Old 02-24-2009
The simplest way you can do this is like this

for ex:
CMD="ls -l | wc -l"

echo $CMD | /bin/sh
 

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