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Shell script



On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
>Okay know I don't feel so bad.  For some reason this is not working.  
>My command is ping -c 5 bacon | grep 64 - when I assign it var='ping
>cmd' then echo $var - it echos the command, not the answer I'm
>expecting 5.

Use backticks, not single quotes.
Grave, not acute.

Enlarged version:


      backtick           single quote
   \                                   /
     \                               /
       \                           /
         \                       /
           \                   /


man bash :)

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