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Hello
If anybody knows something about the following please help me.

I am using HP unix.
In a script called test.txt i have the following command

echo ok | tee test1.txt

It works fine.It prints ok on the screen and creates the file test1.txt and puts in the file the "ok".

In the same script i want to do the following.Instead of the command
echo ok | tee test1.txt , i want to use :

myvariable=| tee test1.txt
echo ok $myvariable

But the above does not work correct.It prints ok on the screen and creates the file test1.txt .But the file test1.txt is emtpy(zero bytes).

I have tried the following commands but none worked for me.
myvariable
#1
myvariable='| tee test1.txt'
echo ok $myvariable

#2
myvariable=| tee test1.txt
echo "ok $myvariable"

#3
myvariable='| tee test1.txt'
echo "ok $myvariable"

#4
myvariable=| tee test1.txt
echo "ok ${myvariable}"

#5
myvariable='| tee test1.txt'
echo "ok ${myvariable}"

#6
myvariable="| tee test1.txt"
echo "ok ${myvariable}"

#7
myvariable=| tee test1.txt
eval echo ok \${$myvariable}

#8
myvariable="| tee test1.txt"
eval echo ok \${$myvariable}

Thank you for your time.

Variables are not evaluated that way after strings have already been parsed, as you've discovered, but, you can force the shell to re-evaluate it whenever you want with the eval builtin.

Code:

STR="echo A | cat"
eval "$STR"

Thank you very much for your quick reply Corona688, and thank you very much for
helping me solve my problem.