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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Spaces in variables Post 302622261 by digitalviking on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 10:52:57 PM
Old 04-11-2012
Spaces in variables

I'm having a problem with this....

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Code:
#!/bin/bash

SPKTAG=" | festival --tts"
echo "Welcome to my shell program" "$SPKTAG";

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I have a variable call SPKTAG " | festival --tts" and I want to be it executable.

festival is a speaking program and the command line works like this:

echo "Welcome to my shell program" | festival --tts;

but I want the " | festival --tts" to be a variable so I can turn it off or on.

Any ideas?

Cheers
DV

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-12-2012 at 01:23 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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