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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use variable with command substitution in variable Post 302445556 by rajukv on Monday 16th of August 2010 08:42:05 AM
Old 08-16-2010
MySQL How to use variable with command substitution in variable

For example I have variable like below
Code:
echo $OUTPUT
/some/path/`uname -n`

when I try to use the variable OUTPUT like below
Code:
cd $OUTPUT or cd ${OUTPUT}

I am getting bad substituion error message

Code:
$ cd $OUTPUT
ksh: cd: bad substitution
$ cd ${OUTPUT}
ksh: cd: bad substitution

What is the solution for this ?

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Last edited by zaxxon; 08-16-2010 at 09:49 AM..
 

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