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Old 05-02-2012
EVAL syntax problems
Hi there

As part of a larger script I need to put the output of an ls into a variable which has an incremental number.

ie

Code:
nathan@nathan-Vostro-1700:~$ eval 'proc'$val='`ls -ld /proc/9467`'
nathan@nathan-Vostro-1700:~$ echo $proc0
dr-xr-xr-x 8 nathan nathan 0 2012-05-02 09:21 /proc/9467

However what I need is just the dtae and time stamp from the output, so of course out came awk

Code:
nathan@nathan-Vostro-1700:~$ eval 'proc'$val='`ls -ld /proc/9467 | awk 'print {$6,$7}' `'
-bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
-bash: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I have trtied all sorts of ways but I can't get my syntax right Smilie

Help please Smilie
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-02-2012 at 07:04 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 05-02-2012
is your awk is correct ?

Code:
 
awk '{print $6,$7}'

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nathan.harris
# 3  
Old 05-02-2012
The awk was wrong. Try:
Code:
eval "proc$val=\"`ls -ld testdir|awk '{print $6,$7}'`\""

or without the backtickss:
Code:
eval "proc$val=\"$(ls -ld testdir|awk '{print $6,$7}')\""

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# 4  
Old 05-02-2012
Thank you that works a treat! very much appreciatted
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