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Old 09-28-2006
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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That's because the shell treat $6 as a commandline variable - it doesn't see the awk block and know it's an awk command:
Code:
$ export DEV="/usr/sbin/diskutil list | /usr/bin/grep Master | /usr/bin/awk '{ print \$6 }'"
FWIW - what you want here is probably an alias unless you plan to :
Code:
eval $DEV