Script help

[Venkat_33]

Hi,

I want output of both like

testin='ls -a'

output with that command how do that

[RAC_1]

I am not clear as to what exactly you want.

alias testin='ls -a'

testin would now give what 'ls -a' would give.

[Venkat_33]

my script will do

testin=`ls -a`

echo $testin >> out.txt

and also i want to include that ls -a command to that file.

[RAC_1]

type testin >> some_file
Also, you do not need to do echo $testin >> some_file, you need to do as follows.

testin >> some_file

[Venkat_33]

hi RAC,

its not working

[RAC_1]

what is not working??

[Venkat_33]

what is my question is

i want to output the 'ls -a' to some file and also will include what command i executed for this output eg:'la -a'

[RAC_1]

type testin >> some_file;testin >> some_file

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Venkat:

Perhaps this is what you want (by example):

# CMD="ls -l /var/tmp";{ echo executing: $CMD;$CMD; } > file

Regards!

...JRF...

[Howard Marshall]

Just to break it down to its most simple form, If I understand what you want

echo â output from ls â a commandâ > file.out
testin=$(ls â a)

echo $testin >> file.out


in this case $( ) works just like the back tick ` `


Howard

[Howard Marshall]

ok, lets try that again


echo "output from ls -a command" > file.out
testin=$(ls -a)

echo $testin >> file.out


see if that prints better
stupid Word

Howard

[Sandman!]

Venkat,

If you want to capture the output of the command as well as the executed command then "script" might be what you're looking for...man script(1)

cheers!

[rmueller58]

I would to this

export testit=`ls -a`

[Tom Danzig]

" want to output the 'ls -a' to some file and also will include what command i executed for this output eg:'la -a' "

CMD="ls -a"
echo "$CMD" > /tmp/file
$CMD >> /tmp/file

This answers your question but is not very elegant. Setting a variable to the output of a command as you posted originally is not a good idea. It would work provided you put double quotes aruond the grave accented command provided there are not too many files present.

Suggest you just do:

ls -a > /tmp/file

and be done with it.