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

Thanks - that was exactly it.

Anthony

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Gail Bowman wrote:

> Maybe the difference between single quote  and the back tick.  if you enclose
> ping cmd in back ticks like this `ping cmd` instead of single quotes like this
> 'ping cmd' it should work.
> 
> Gail
> 
> "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.  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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