Isaac Bennetch on 16 Sep 2010 11:46:09 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Building a command from variables in BASH

  • From: Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com>
  • To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Building a command from variables in BASH
  • Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:46:16 -0400
  • Cc: Michael Bevilacqua <michael@bevilacqua.us>
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Hi,

On 9/16/2010 2:40 PM, Michael Bevilacqua wrote:
...


To test, I do:

echo $VCIDS

and I get exactly what I want in the string:

| sed -e s/ orarcrc01<->cdp1crc02/ 100000 orarcrc01<->cdp1crc02/g | sed
-e s/ sdgdcrc01<->cdc1crc02/ 100001 sdgdcrc01<->cdc1crc02/g | sed -e s/
cindcrc01<->cdc1crc02/ 100002 cindcrc01<->cdc1crc02/g | sed -e s/
akrdcrc01<->cdp1crc02/ 100003 akrdcrc01<->cdp1crc02/g | sed -e s/
daldcrc01<->cdp1crc01/ 100004 daldcrc01<->cdp1crc01/g | sed -e s/
ausrcrc01<->cdc1crc01/ 100005 ausrcrc01<->cdc1crc01/g | sed -e s/
syrrcrc01<->cdc1crc01/ 100006 syrrcrc01<->cdc1crc01/g | sed -e s/
manrcrc01<->cdp1crc01/ 100007 manrcrc01<->cdp1crc01/g | sed -e s/
cdc1crc01<->cdp1crc01/ 100014 cdc1crc01<->cdp1crc01/g | sed -e s/
cdc1crc02<->cdp1crc02/ 100015 cdc1crc02<->cdp1crc02/g



So, now I want to rebuild that original ugly line and execute it, so I do:

exec "cat $FILE1 $VCIDS > $FILE2"


My first thought is:
exec "cat $FILE1 `echo $VCIDS` > $FILE2"
Or am I over-simplifying the problem?
~isaac


And it fails because $VCIDS is no longer a command, it is now a string,
so cat wants to read it as so.

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