[Techtalk] BASH command subsitution

[Diggy Bell]

Hi Robin,

There've been several answers to your initial question, but you might want
to check out a couple more resources.

Introduction to Linux (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html)

This guide is an excellent resource for anybody working in a *NIX
environment.  It has all of that little stuff that you have written down on
little scraps of paper all compiled into an very well written guide.

Advanced Bash Scripting (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html)

I haven't read this one yet, but someone else had mentioned it in another
response.  I did talk to the review coordinator at TLDP and did find out
that this guie has been actively maintained, and a new version was just
released.

HTH

William D. 'Diggy' Bell
Principal
DB Software Development
http://www.dbsoftdev.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Hood" <RobinHood42 at clickta.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 11:17 PM
Subject: [Techtalk] BASH command subsitution


> I have been working through my Unix textbook and am up to the chapter on
the
> Bourne shell.
> I am up to the section on command subsitution.
> According to my textbook typing:
>
> $ echo the date today is 'date'
>
> should result in something like:
>
> the date today is Mon Feb 2 00:41:55 CST 1998
>
> However. When I type this into my Linux box (SuSE 8.0)
> All I get is:
>
> todays date is date.
>
> I have also tried the following:
>
> $ echo 'ls'
> ls
> $ echo 'pwd'
> pwd
>
> It seems that command subsitution does not work under bash (at least on my
> computer anyway).
> Has anybody else ever had this problem?
> Is it a bug? or am I doing something really stupid?
>
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