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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading of variable in a single line command Post 302757641 by padi on Thursday 17th of January 2013 10:21:32 PM
Old 01-17-2013
Reading of variable in a single line command
Hi All,

Below is a sample command that I can run without any problem in the command line.

Command Line
HTML Code:
dtToday=`date +%Y%m%d`; ls -ltr ./filename_${dtToday}.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 monuser oinstall 0 Jan 18 11:02 ./filename_20130118.txt
But once I put that command line in file (list.txt) and read from it, an error occurs. Pls. see below the code:

HTML Code:
cat ./list.txt|while read xLine
do
echo "`echo $xLine | awk -F \"|\" '{print $2}'`"
echo "========="
`echo $xLine | awk -F "|" '{print $2}'`
done

==========
[B]Result:[/B]

dtToday=`date +%Y%m%d`; ls -ltr ./filename_${dtToday}.txt
=========
./j.sh: line 6: dtToday=`date: command not found

The list.txt contains the line below:
HTML Code:
SomeText|dtToday=`date +%Y%m%d`; ls -ltr ./filename_${dtToday}.txt
Need help badly to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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