[TriLUG] bash weirdness

[Ron Young]

Stan,
This worked on my system:

#!/bin/bash

#line="dpkg -l > all-packages.txt";
# my system does not have dpkg installed


line=`ls -ln > line.txt`;
echo $line;

exec $line;

cat line.txt



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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, stan briggs <stan at stanbriggs.com> wrote:

> all,
>
> i'm trying to get a series of commands to execute with a bash shell.
> someting like this:
> line="dpkg -l > all-packages.txt"
> which i then try to execute with
> $line
> `$line`
> output=`$line`.
> none seem to execute the command. i'm guessing it has to do with the pipe
> symbol and explains why similar commands with shell re-directs in them
> fail,
> also.
>
> can anyone point me to a good reference that explains this?
>
> thanks,
> stan
>
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