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Old 10-31-2008
Standard output redirection from a variable
Hi, trying to store a comand involving a redirection in a variable and then run this variable. But the redirection gets lost.

Ex:
#!ksh
MYCMD="ls -l > dirlist.txt"
$MYCMD

This runs the command but displays the result in the terminal instead of redirecting it to the text file.

Can this be done?
# 2  
Old 10-31-2008
MYCMD="ls -l"
$MYCMD > dirlist.txt
Last edited by Bandit390; 10-31-2008 at 11:58 PM..
# 3  
Old 11-01-2008

Code:
MYCMD="ls -l > dirlist.txt"
eval "$MYCMD"

# 4  
Old 11-02-2008
here's what I'm trying to do:
Quote:
#!/bin/bash
rootFolder="/cygdrive/d/users/xxx/tmp" #
folders="OutputDir1 OutputDir2 OutputDir3" #
count=0 #
countBcp=0 #
for folder in $folders #
do #
count=`expr $count + 1` #
echo "Folder $count: $folder" #
cd "$rootFolder/$folder" #
pwd #
countBcp="ls -l -d ./bcpFiles* | wc -l" #
eval $countBcp #

i = 0
while $i -lt $countBcp << Problem I can't really compare against $countBcp
do
# do something
done
done
#
# 5  
Old 11-03-2008
To Bandit390: Simple and effective - sometimes simple things are just too obvious to be seen.
To cfajohnson: This does the trick. I never used the 'eval' command. I just learned something.
Now my biggest problem is to decide which solution I will use Smilie
Thank you very much to both of you.
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