On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:46, Henry Axelrod wrote:
> I have been trying to do something that seems that it should be very
> simple in a shell script. I am trying to make a variable equal to the
> output of a command. The command started off very complex but I created
> a test script to bring it down to it's most simple form and it still
> does not work. Here is the test script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # test script
>
> test1='pwd'
you want...
test1=`pwd`
> echo $test1
>
> when in this format the test1 variable echo's the word pwd instead of
> the current directory.
> I have also tried
> test1= 'pwd' # test1 is null and command executes
> I am almost positive I have done this before in a script.
> Any help would be appreciate.
>
> Linux AS 2.1 Kernel 2.4.9-e.35
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