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Old 01-12-2011
Running BASH commands from a variable

I am trying to assign a command to a variable and use it. I have tried every possible quoting variation except the correct one. Smilie Here is an example:

Code:
CMD="grep description $i | grep "::""
$CMD | nawk ...

Thanks in advance for you help.
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Old 01-12-2011
Code:
CMD="grep description $i | grep "::""
eval $CMD | nawk ...

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