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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Output in bash script not captured in variable Post 302498895 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 07:08:58 PM
Old 02-22-2011
I suspect the program is outputting to stderr (or worse directly to /dev/tty).

Try this:
Code:
bjobs_out=`bjobs 2>&1`
while [[  "$bjobs_out" != "No unfinished job found" ]]; do
bjobs_out=`bjobs 2>&1`
 
sleep 6
done

If you still have no luck, perhaps the return status of the bjobs command will help try checking the value of $? after it's run:

Code:
while bjobs > /dev/null 2>&1 ; do sleep 6; done


Last edited by Chubler_XL; 02-22-2011 at 08:14 PM..
 

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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
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