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- eval - create a shell command and process it
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- eval [ options ] [arg...]
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- eval is a shell special built-in command that constructs a command by concatenating the args together, separating each with a
space. The resulting string is then taken as input to the shell and evaluated in the current environment. Note that command words are expanded
twice; once to construct arg, and again when the shell executes the constructed command.
- It is not an error if arg is not given.
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- If arg is not specified, the exit status is 0. Otherwise, it is the exit status of the command defined by the arg
operands.
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- exec(1), trap(1), .(1)
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- version
- eval (AT&T Research) 1999-07-07
- author
- David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
- copyright
- Copyright © 1982-2010 AT&T Intellectual Property
- license
- http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt