Couldn't use bat as PAGER/MANPAGER (unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'')

[Animeshz]

$ MANPAGER="bash -c 'col -b | bat -l man -p'" man bat
-b: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
-b: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Seems like | there is acting weird and taking priority over quoted string with single quote '.

This however works perfectly fine:

$ man bat | bash -c 'col -b | bat -l man -p'

Any idea why former one with env variable doesn't work?

[sharkdp]

I'm not sure. Maybe it depends on your man implementation? I can not reproduce this on Arch Linux (man 2.11.0).