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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how do i print literal value? Post 302596260 by knight_eon on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 04:12:43 AM
Old 02-07-2012
Sorry, but unable to understand what you need?

Here are some conclusions in codes:

Code:
# x=$(ls -ltr)
# echo "$x"
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 58 Feb  7 12:29 data
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 script.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 eon
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 bin.sh

# echo ${x}
total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Feb 7 12:29 data -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 7 13:51 script.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 7 13:51 eon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 7 13:51 bin.sh

# x='ls -ltr'
# echo $x
ls -ltr
# echo "$x"
ls -ltr
# $x
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 58 Feb  7 12:29 data
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 script.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 eon
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 bin.sh

---------- Post updated at 02:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:38 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by curtis911
yeah i searched, but couldnt find any.
it works!!! thank you!!!
but i want to set variable like x=$(l -ltr) and print value as string, can you do that?
x=$(ls -ltr) : Through this construct, we pass the output of the command inside $() to the variable x. U can not pass the literal string via $() construct.

Or you can do one thing:

x=$(echo ls -ltr)

Code:
# x=$(echo ls -ltr)
# echo $x
ls -ltr
# $x
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 58 Feb  7 12:29 data
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 script.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 eon
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 Feb  7 13:51 bin.sh

 

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lastcomm

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NAME

       lastcomm - Outputs information about the last commands executed

SYNOPSIS

       lastcomm [Command] [Name] [Tty]

DESCRIPTION

       The  lastcomm  command  outputs	information about all previously executed commands that are recorded in the /var/adm/pacct file in reverse
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       You may specify a particular command with the Command parameter, a particular user with the Name parameter, and a  particular  terminal	as
       the  command  source  with the Tty parameter. Output is then restricted to the specified parameters. A Tty terminal may be named fully (for
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       the  command  was  executed.  The following flags are valid: Command was run with an effective user-id of 0.  Command ran after a fork, but
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EXAMPLES

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