fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/eval.rst
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.. _cmd-eval:
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 the command does not need access to stdin, consider using :ref:`source <cmd-source>` instead.
If no piping or other compound shell constructs are required, variable-expansion-as-command, as in ``set cmd ls -la; $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.
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set cmd ls \| cut -c 1-12
eval $cmd