Alessandro Vesely via Dng said on Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:39:07 +0100
>On Wed 12/Jan/2022 01:27:45 +0100 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:52:10 -0500
>> william moss <bill.m.moss@???> wrote:
>>
>>> Bash is taking the string in the double quotes as a single command;
>>> this is well documented. If either the command or parameters have
>>> spaces, you will have to use eval. Check the bash man page for
>>> details.
>>>
>>> This will also usually work
>>> X=$( "command and such" )
>>> due to the execute block.
>>
>> I am replying to the list to share the valid (tested) alternative.
>> Thanks a lot!
>
>
>Bash still considers a quoted command as such, for example:
>
>ale@pcale:~/tmp$ X=$("echo foo")
>bash: echo foo: command not found
On the other hand...
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[slitt@mydesk ~]$ cat -n /etc/fstab | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5
1 UUID=730eaf92
2 UUID=41abb5fd
3 UUID=96cfdfb3
4 UUID=6F66-BF7
5 tmpfs /tmp tm
[slitt@mydesk ~]$ "cat -n" /etc/fstab | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5
bash: cat -n: command not found
[slitt@mydesk ~]$ "cat -n /etc/fstab" | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5
bash: cat -n /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
[slitt@mydesk ~]$
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