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Old 04-16-2010
2 commands in script wont work together

For some reason when I run these separately they work but when they are in a script file the second wont:
Code:
printf "%s\n" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" | tee $HOME/bpl/random

RANDOM1=$( <$HOME/bpl/random )

Anyone know why?
# 2  
Old 04-16-2010
wasn't it answered here?
# 3  
Old 04-16-2010
no it wasnt
# 4  
Old 04-16-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pkohn11
no it wasnt
interesting.... I thought it had been.
and you decided to create a new thread instead of following on in the old thread??
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Old 04-16-2010
well i changed the script a bit, sorry i guess i should have reposted the new one on there.
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Old 04-16-2010
Works fine for me under Ubuntu/bash. Can you provide a bit more information about the shell and O/S version you're using so we can offer a bit more help?

Cheers,
Keith

Last edited by kduffin; 04-16-2010 at 08:19 PM..
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Old 04-18-2010
for some reason the $RANDOM1 variable wont show any data
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