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11-19-2008

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Use proper korn shell command substitution in the script.

Code:

# cat script
     #!/usr/bin/ksh
     result=$(ssh remote-client 'du -sk /usr/platform/`uname -i`')
     echo $result

# ./script
448 /usr/platform/FJSV,GPUZC-M
#

Last edited by System Shock; 11-20-2008 at 10:59 AM..