Bash Scripting

[KevinO]

Lynn David Newton wrote:
>   b> Unfortunately, bash doesn't put the executed
>   b> output in the variable, it puts the text itself
>   b> in. Any other ideas?
> 
> I see in later mail you found a solution, but I see a
> problem here. 
> 
>   >> #!/bin/sh

The topic of this message is bash scripting...
The 'proper' first line would be :

#!/bin/bash

Although /bin/sh is probably a symbolic link to bash...

;-)


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