[D-community-offtopic] how to quote the pipe symbol in shell scripts?

[Amaya]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> command="tail -n 3 cols.txt | cut -f 2-3 -d ','"
> [...]
> It looks like the pipe symbol is being embedded in single quotes. But
> I do not know how to suppress this behaviour. Any
> ideas/comments/suggestions?

To me it looks like it is not the pipe giving you grief. It is the
single quotes from the cut command that are failing (-d ','). 

I am running into the same issue atm (long time, no quotes) and am
looking at: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/quoting 

Happy hacking and *do* come back with an answer if you finally fix this.
I for sure will :)

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