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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting outputing sed to a variable Post 302313117 by flewis on Monday 4th of May 2009 10:28:11 PM
Old 05-04-2009
outputing sed to a variable

Hello,

My appologies for asking a very basic question but...

In a shell, I enter:
echo tit | sed -e s/tit/tat/g

This returns:
tat

as expected.

But when I enter:
set test = `echo tit | sed -e s/tit/tat/g`
echo $test

This returns an empty line.

Why is this so and how can I get my variable "test" to contain the result of my sed command rather than an empty result?

Thank you!
 

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JSONBOT - The JSON everywhere bot! SYNOPSIS
JSONBOT is a remote event-driven framework for building bots that talk JSON to each other over XMPP. This manual page documents briefly the jsb distribution.. DESCRIPTION
This distribution provides bots built on this framework for console, IRC, XMPP, Convore and WWW on the shell. USAGE
JSONBOT uses command line options to configure a bot. See the --help option to get more help on a command options or see the corresponding man page. the jsb pakage contains the following programs: * jsb - console version of jsb * jsb-backup - create backup of JSONBOT datadir * jsb-convore - convore version of jsb * jsb-init - create data directory and config examples, default ~/.jsb * jsb-irc - IRC version of jsb * jsb-fleet - mix IRC and XMPP bots * jsb-sed - sed a whole directory * jsb-stop - stop a running bot * jsb-tornado - a shell web server based on tornado * jsb-udp - send udp packets to the bot that will relay the data * jsb-xmpp - XMPP version of jsb note: JSONBOT is in BETA stage right now and still subject to change of protocols and API. see http://jsonbot.googlecode.com. see https://jsonbot.org for documentation on the bot. SEE ALSO
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