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From: rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Problem setting headers to output from shell commands
Message-ID: <142877@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 22:09:57 GMT
References: <1990Sep21.091000.11589@ibmpcug.co.uk> <12320@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:

>In article <1990Sep21.091000.11589@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:

>The above is as close to generic as it gets at the moment.  I posted a
>mush script called "bq" (for backquote) a while ago which does this in
>a slightly more generalized manner, but I don't have a copy handy.  You
>could also try:

Here it is:


#!/bin/sh
# bq for mush
#
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
    echo bq: too few arguments
    echo 'usage: bq variable command [args ...]'
fi 1>&2
out=$HOME/.mushbq
var=$1
shift
val=`eval "$@" | tr "\012'" ' "'`
echo set $var = "'$val'" > $out



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