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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Force command substitution evaluation in bash? Post 302971104 by Don Cragun on Friday 15th of April 2016 03:54:33 PM
Old 04-15-2016
Hi siegfried,
In post #2 in this thread, I said:
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Show us the source for your BackupRecords program.
In post #4 in this thread I said:
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The only thing that makes sense to me is that value returned by BackupRecords --log must return a string that includes a command substitution (from the description, probably including an invocation of the date utility) that produces different results each time $BUPLOG is expanded. But, the only way to know for sure is to see the source for BackupRecords.
In post #6 in this thread, shamrock said:
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I agree with the others in that the answer lies somewhere in your BackupRecords script...
In post #8 in this thread, I said:
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If you won't show us the code for BackupRecords, it is REALLY REALLY hard for us to tell you how to fix it to do what you want.
Instead of showing us the source for your BackupRecords program as we have requested four times, you keep asking us to tell you how to fix code that you will not let us see,.

We want to help you. PLEASE HELP US HELP YOU! Please show us the source for BackupRecords! If you won't show us the source for BackupRecords, we are all wasting our time trying to help you. PLEASE HELP US HELP YOU! Show us the source for BackupRecords!
 

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ppmtopgm(1)						      General Commands Manual						       ppmtopgm(1)

NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b. Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph. QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is gray, and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is a quantization error. SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. 10 April 2000 ppmtopgm(1)
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