Timeline for Why can certain commands be ran through a variable, while others can't?
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 17:35 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | user361323 | I was just generally curious. it helps with understanding things on a more fundamental level, little by little. | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 11:31 | comment | added | bxm |
I can't speak for the morality of it :-) but for some things it's necessary – case in point. I would be inclined to ask what problem you are trying to solve by running commands in this manner? Perhaps there's another approach without resorting to evil eval.
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 11:13 | comment | added | user361323 | But everywhere I read, using eval is somehow 'evil' | |
| Nov 5, 2019 at 11:12 | history | answered | bxm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |