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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with making the output of a command a variable Post 303034614 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 1st of May 2019 12:45:06 AM
Old 05-01-2019
I am not a fan of zenity, but I don't think zenity or double-quotes are your problem here.

The $( in your bash script starts a command substitution. That command substitution tries to run the command named by the first argument in the command substitution (in this case, a command named by the double-quoted <space> character that you say is intended to give you a check box). I would expect that to give you an error something like:
Code:
bash:  : command not found

but you won't get that until you finish the command substitution. Your command substitution is looking for an unescaped closing parenthesis to finish it. Since you have a backslash character escaping the closing parenthesis in your command substitution, another closing parenthesis is needed to close the command substitution!

Why are you trying to use a command substitution here? What command are you trying to run in this command substitution?
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