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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read from file and execute the read command Post 302851339 by vital_parsley on Sunday 8th of September 2013 08:29:47 AM
Old 09-08-2013
Hi Thanks for the replies.
But i have been getting the same error.
So in my lookup i have mentioned as
Code:
echo /a/b/c/box/$(ls -rt /a/b/c/box|grep -i cef |tail -1)

and to get this above stmt to execute and assign to ftf is :
Code:
ftf=$(eval $(cat $file_path | grep -i $STR | cut -d '*' -f4))

This is working for me....but as you can see in my lookup file i have hardcoded the path.
So the issue remains I have to parametrize this value.

Which could be :
Code:
echo $(ls -rt $BOX |grep -i cef |tail -1)

But this $BOX don't seem to resolve.I even tried \$BOX to resolve.
But it doesnt seem to resolve the value.

Can anyone please suggest some solution.
 

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