Bruce, Thanks for the quick response and simple solution.
Larry Bruce Dawson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Cook wrote: | I'm being stupid! Can someone please help? | | I've got a BASH script with the following: | | CMD="zcat myfile | tar xf -" $CMD You want "eval $CMD". | This puts zcat's output to stdout, rather than piping it to tar | like I want. Now I'm sure this is how it *should* work. :-( | Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get it to work like I | want. | | Thanks, Larry _______________________________________________ | gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org | http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC+QMb/TBScWXa5IgRAgzRAJ9PtQgS0fleT2oKzQJPGNPBCn7oMwCeMjnn QSjEvIb2nvDUlMDVrCyYJmM= =1VpX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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