test1=$(pwd) much readable than backticks (test1=`pwd`), less confusing, avoids typos, etc hth A 11:46 03/06/2004 -0400, vous avez écrit : >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' >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 >_____________ >LEGAL NOTICE >Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential >and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. >Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. >If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the >contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in >reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an >addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this >message and empty from your trash. > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
