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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting pipe in command Post 302608105 by daWonderer on Friday 16th of March 2012 07:29:28 AM
Old 03-16-2012
pipe in command

Hello,

I try to concatenate a command to execute. Sadly it throws an error.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
cd /
cmd="find -name *.txt | awk '{ printf "FILE: "$1; system("less "$1);}' | egrep 'FILE:|$1'"
echo "1."
$($cmd)
echo "2."
$("$cmd")
echo "3."
`$cmd`
echo "4."
`"$cmd"`

1.&3. 'find: paths must precede expression: |'
2.&4. 'command not found'

nothing of this works right now. I need some help please...

EDIT: I've found a solution using 'eval'. Why do I need to execute another command to use piping in shell script?

Last edited by daWonderer; 03-16-2012 at 08:57 AM..
 

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