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Re: Bug? Explanation??


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Bug? Explanation??
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:06:00 -0500
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On 12/30/16 11:07 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 PM, PePa <peterkelly@passchier.net
> <mailto:peterkelly@passchier.net>> wrote:
> 
>     r=23; echo $r; echo -e "r=bc\necho $r" |bash
> 
> You need to escape the |$| in the second echo statement so that |$r| is not
> evaluated to |23| before being echoed.

The easiest way to see what bash gets on its standard input is to replace
`bash' in the pipeline with `cat'.

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