[OT] Evaluate strings in bash
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Wed Aug 20 17:25:02 UTC 2008
Matias Surdi wrote:
> # echo $BINMAKE
> `if [ -x /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make ]; then echo
> /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make; else echo make; fi` -m /usr/src/share/mk
>
> I'd like to have a second variable like:
> [code]
> # echo $newvariable
> make -m /usr/src/share/mk
# newvariable=`eval echo $BINMAKE`
By the way, this has nothing to do with bash. Those things
work with every bourne shell, including FreeBSD's /bin/sh.
It even works with Solaris' /bin/sh which is very far from
a POSIX shell. :-)
Best regards
Oliver
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