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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting don't know how to interpret this Post 302503431 by Corona688 on Thursday 10th of March 2011 01:33:58 PM
Old 03-10-2011
I hope that's an example of how not to do something because it doesn't work.

Code:
listpage="ls | more"
$listpage
ls:  cannot access "|":  no such file or directory
ls:  cannot access "more": no such file or directory

The idea, I think, is to run the ls command to list the current directory, and feed its output into the more program so you can view it page by page. But you can't dump that text into a variable and expect it to work because the shell doesn't evaluate variables that way unless you force it to with eval.

How I'd actually do that is this:
Code:
alias listpage="ls | more"
listpage

 

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