Re: gratuitous use of echo?

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 You something other than 

    someprogramthatproducesoutput | awk | sed | etc? 

What conditions make the above insufficient? 


Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 
> I write a lot of sh scripts that do something like this: 
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> FOO=`someprogramthatproducesoutput` 
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> and then: 
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> echo $FOO | awk | sed | etc 
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> to mangle/unmangle the string in $FOO. 
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> Is there a way to get at the string in $FOO without using echo? 
> 
> -b 
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