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Name: Najib (by Nael_Najib)
Date: August 25, 2007 at 23:04:08 Pacific
OS: Solaris
CPU/Ram: Sun Sparc /8Gb RAM
Product: Sun
Comment:

Hello,

I have a problem assigning two commands into one variable. i did the following

CHK=`cat `cat $HOM/temp.log``
$CHK

and i did:

CHK="cat `cat $HOM/temp.log`"
${CHK}

but it is not working.. do you have any idea how to make it work.

Thanks

Aladimi



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Name: nails
Date: August 27, 2007 at 09:31:14 Pacific
Reply:

A way ....

#!/bin/ksh

STR='eval "cat `cat temp.log`"'
CHK=`eval $STR`
echo $CHK


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