Re: Stupid Bash question.

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:35:17AM -0800, joe wrote:
>
> > > > This is driving me crazy. How does one capture the string output of a
> > > > function in a bash shell script like:
> > > >
> > > > p=getpass($1)
> > > >
> > > > should do into the variable p?
> > > >        
> > > This indeed was a stupid question and I apologize. The answer is
> > > probably use Perl.
> > >      
> > So, you didn't like our answers? what did we miss?
> >
> > Joe
> >    
> You didn't miss anything that I said but what I did not say. The
> getpass I was talking about in this case was a C program. C main
> programs do not return string values which I was trying to do here.
> If getpass was a bash function your answers would be appropriate. 
> But for a C program it just won't work.
>  
Forgive me, but apart from the spurious spelling mistakes how does

   p=$(date +%x)

differ from

   p=$(getpass $1)

Unless by "C program" you don't mean a C program, you mean a C 
subroutine that you want to call from a C program, or indeed from Perl.

jch


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