Shell script

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

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.  I
haven't had to due much shell sccripting so I could be missing something
big.

As always all help appreciated.

Thanks,
Anthony

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I have what I hope to be an easy question.  How do I make the
> output of a command, it will be a number, assign to a variable.  I'm using
> bash - I have been reading through several books on this and I'm starting
> to get frusterated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
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