Standard output redirection from a variable

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi, trying to store a comand involving a redirection in a variable and then run this variable. But the redirection gets lost.

Ex:
#!ksh
MYCMD="ls -l > dirlist.txt"
$MYCMD

This runs the command but displays the result in the terminal instead of redirecting it to the text file.

Can this be done?

2

MYCMD="ls -l"
$MYCMD > dirlist.txt

3 
MYCMD="ls -l > dirlist.txt"
eval "$MYCMD"
4

here's what I'm trying to do:

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5

To Bandit390: Simple and effective - sometimes simple things are just too obvious to be seen.
To cfajohnson: This does the trick. I never used the 'eval' command. I just learned something.
Now my biggest problem is to decide which solution I will use :smiley:
Thank you very much to both of you.