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Operating Systems Solaris Scripiting quote and variable issues Post 302467508 by DGPickett on Friday 29th of October 2010 03:41:15 PM
Old 10-29-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by striker0010
DGPickett,

For reference ./animals looks like the following

cat,tiger,Fluffy
sheep,blackSheep,Spike
ect....

Am I to understand that placing a command such as this:

Code:
echo"grep cat ./animals"

will print the output of that command to the screen, so in this example I would get:
cat,tiger,Fluffy on the screen ?
Well, yes, like this:
Code:
echo"grep cat ./animals" | rsh animal_host ksh

Essentially, you are generating a script dynamically, sending it over to the host for ksh to run. Don't forget something like ". ./.profile" if you need snvironment. I favor single quotes unless I want variable expansion, as they have fewer metacharacters. Parens are very nice for this, as you can mix in all sorts of commands, and as always, you can preview the created script for validity:
Code:
(
  echo '. ./.profile'
  echo 'grep cat ./animals'
 ) | rsh animal_host ksh

 

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