From: paveltz@csoft.bg (Pavel Tzekov) Subject: RE: Bash problem 18 Nov 1997 01:30:30 -0800 Message-ID: <01BCF352.3DC32BC0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mordor.csoft.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Volker Zell'" Hi there! It worked just fine for me -- I'm using b18 no updated sources,patches, etc. ---------- From: Volker Zell[SMTP:VZELL@de.oracle.com] Sent: 15 Ноември 1997 г. 20:33 To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Bash problem The following two lines of code work on the command line but not if executed from a shell script. vzell:/usr/bin> myls=`ls -lt` vzell:/usr/bin> echo $myls total 156 -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 177 Nov 15 19:13 t -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 1763 Nov 15 19:08 whatis -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 1695 Nov 15 19:06 apropos -rwxr--r-- 1 vzell admin 38923 Oct 11 18:19 txt2html* #!/bin/sh myls=`ls -lt` echo $myls In this case I get an empty line. Any hints ? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".