Quick Shell script question

[Henry Axelrod]

Thanks man. 

I did loose my mind for a minute. Darn back tick.

>>> Ed.Greshko at greshko.com 6/3/2004 11:50:10 AM >>>
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:46, Henry Axelrod wrote:
> I have been trying to do something that seems that it should be very
> simple in a shell script. I am trying to make a variable equal to
the
> output of a command. The command started off very complex but I
created
> a test script to bring it down to it's most simple form and it still
> does not work. Here is the test script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # test script
> 
> test1='pwd'

you want...

test1=`pwd`

> echo $test1
> 
> when in this format the test1 variable echo's the word pwd instead
of
> the current directory.
> I have also tried
> test1= 'pwd'      # test1 is null and command executes
> I am almost positive I have done this before in a script. 
> Any help would be appreciate.
> 
> Linux AS 2.1 Kernel 2.4.9-e.35
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