Quick Shell script question

[Thierry ITTY]

test1=$(pwd)

much readable than backticks (test1=`pwd`), less confusing, avoids typos, etc

hth


A 11:46 03/06/2004 -0400, vous avez écrit :
>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
>
>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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