Re: script question

["Christoph Neuhaus" <nihil14@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I have this line:
>              ALSA=`aplay --version`
>
> in a script. when I execute the script I get the message
>  line 187: --version: command not found

What's in line 187?

Do you really want to use backticks ` or should it be more like  
ALSA='aplay --version' (apostrophes)? If you want to stick to the  
backticks you should redirect aplay's output from STDERR to STDOUT:  
ALSA=`aplay --version 2>&1` (aplay 1.0.6, CentOS 4.7).

Chris
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