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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting returning un executed string to shell prompt Post 302284638 by sunpraveen on Friday 6th of February 2009 02:12:27 AM
Old 02-06-2009
John,

Try the below code. Let me know if it works.

Code:
command=`echo "date"`

echo "Do you want to execute the command '${command}:'"
read RET

if [[ ${RET} = "" ]]
then
  exec ${command}
else
  printf "\n\n The command '${command}' is not being run. \n\n"
fi

Sample Output:
Code:
$ ./test1
Do you want to execute the command 'date:' ## Hit return (ENTER) without inputting anything.

Fri Feb  6 01:16:36 CST 2009

$ ./test1
Do you want to execute the command 'date:'
Y ## ## Input Y (or anything for that matter) and the else part of the if condition is executed.


 The command 'date' is not being run.

$

HTH, Smilie

Regards,

Praveen

Last edited by sunpraveen; 02-06-2009 at 03:25 AM..
 

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+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Changed the return value on success from NULL to | | | DateTime. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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