Quick Shell script question

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez manuaroste at yahoo.es
Thu Jun 3 15:56:29 UTC 2004


 --- Henry Axelrod <AxelrodH at emigrant.com> escribió: >
I have been trying to do something that seems that
> it should be very
> simple in a shell script. I am trying to make a
> variable equal to the
> output of a command. The command started off very
> complex but I created
> a test script to bring it down to it's most simple
> form and it still
> does not work. Here is the test script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # test script
> 

Look at this:
test1=`pwd`
echo $test1

Cheers


> test1='pwd'
> echo $test1
> 
> when in this format the test1 variable echo's the
> word pwd instead of
> the current directory.
> I have also tried
> test1= 'pwd'      # test1 is null and command
> executes
> I am almost positive I have done this before in a
> script. 
> Any help would be appreciate.
> 
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