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Provide an example that somewhat justifies eval's existence in light of this change. Also correct similar misinformation found in a comment.
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.. _cmd-eval:
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eval - evaluate the specified commands
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Synopsis
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eval [COMMANDS...]
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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.
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If your command does not need access to stdin, consider using ``source`` instead.
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If no piping or other compound shell constructs are required, variable-expansion-as-command, as in ``set cmd ls; $cmd``, is also an option.
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Example
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The following code will call the ls command and truncate each filename to the first 12 characters.
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::
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set cmd ls \| cut -c 1-12
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eval $cmd
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