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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting System call oddity Post 302937832 by beomagi on Monday 9th of March 2015 09:33:15 PM
Old 03-09-2015
Ok, here's a simpler example.

very simple script

Code:
#!/bin/sh
##apple soda
##banana split
##peach cobbler
##apple pie
##apple computer
##zuchinni casserole
##mango apple smoothie
##adam's apple
##app installer
##whatsapp
##application manager

export me=$0
datacmd="cat $me | grep ^##"
echo $datacmd
data=`$datacmd`

output:
Code:
beomagi@VBMagi ~ $ ./test.sh 
cat ./test.sh | grep ^##
cat: |: No such file or directory
cat: grep: No such file or directory
cat: ^##: No such file or directory

The first line of the output
"cat ./test.sh | grep ^##" is from the line echo $datacmd

The next 3 lines of errors all come from this : data=`$datacmd`

Yet if I directly drop this into the prompt:
Code:
beomagi@VBMagi ~ $ cat ./test.sh | grep ^##
##apple soda
##banana split
##peach cobbler
##apple pie
##apple computer
##zuchinni casserole
##mango apple smoothie
##adam's apple
##app installer
##whatsapp
##application manager

It works.

i.e. cat ./test.sh | grep ^## works,
BUT if it's a in a string type variable and I execute it as a system call it barfs.

Why?Smilie

---------- Post updated at 09:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:14 PM ----------

I'm balder now.

I think that helped.

I found out that there's "eval" and I can even call bash if i want to execute my string.

backticks just don't seem to cut it for complex calls.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
##apple soda
##banana split
##peach cobbler
##apple pie
##apple computer
##zuchinni casserole
##mango apple smoothie
##adam's apple
##app installer
##whatsapp
##application manager

datacmd="cat $me | grep ^##"
echo $datacmd
data=`eval "$datacmd"`
echo "$data"


gives:
Code:
beomagi@VBMagi ~ $ ./test.sh 
cat ./test.sh | grep ^##
##apple soda
##banana split
##peach cobbler
##apple pie
##apple computer
##zuchinni casserole
##mango apple smoothie
##adam's apple
##app installer
##whatsapp
##application manager



Yaaayyy....

Last edited by beomagi; 03-09-2015 at 11:28 PM..
 

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