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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Kill a process from parent shell within a shell script Post 302393534 by redhead on Tuesday 9th of February 2010 04:47:26 AM
Old 02-09-2010
something like:
Code:
RET=`/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i ... -c 1`
echo $RET

notice the ` instead of '
 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

       Texinfo	is  a  documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both online information and printed output.  It is primarily
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