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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crazy Syntax Post 302979875 by Don Cragun on Saturday 20th of August 2016 05:57:01 PM
Old 08-20-2016
Processing double quotes inside single-quotes inside double-quotes inside an obsolete command substitution is always fun...

What shell (including version) was "someone" who wrote this script using? What operating system (including release number) was "someone" who wrote this script using? What operating system are you using? What version of ksh are you using?

What output do you get from the command:
Code:
ksh -xv
results=$(sudo -u admin ssh loginadmin@host.mgmt\$zone.check "one host list | grep \$server; echo; onevm list | grep \$server")
printf 'results=XXX"%s"XXX\n' "$results"

 

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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