fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/eval.rst

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eval - evaluate the specified commands
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Synopsis
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eval [COMMANDS...]


Description
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``eval`` evaluates the specified parameters as a command. If more than one parameter is specified, all parameters will be joined using a space character as a separator.

If your command does not need access to stdin, consider using ``source`` instead.

If no piping or other compound shell constructs are required, variable-expansion-as-command, as in  ``set cmd ls; $cmd``, is also an option.


Example
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The following code will call the ls command and truncate each filename to the first 12 characters.

::

    set cmd ls \| cut -c 1-12
    eval $cmd
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