Back-Quote in a variable

mudasir · Post by **mudasir** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:16 am

AOA,

Dear LP Members,

I am a bit confused. I am creating a script using BASH shell in which i need to append some text to another file and that text has to be closed in with backquotes(`).

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file=/firewall/mrtg/ids.ips
dir=/firewall/mrtg/cfgs
shdir=/firewall/mrtg/scripts

cat $file | while read ids
do
id=`echo $ids | awk '{print $2}'`
ip=`echo $ids | awk '{print $1}'`
touch $dir/$IP.cfg
echo "Target[tc.class]: $shdir/$IP.sh" >> $dir/$IP.cfg
done

Now the above code is working fine, but missing one thing in the file in which it is being appended, the "$shdir/$IP.sh" should be appended with backquotes at the start and at the end. like this

`/firewall/mrtg/scripts/172.16.10.15.sh`
but it is not i am unable to set these backquotes. it is being appended like

/firewall/mrtg/scripts/172.16.10.15.sh
without backquotes.

Please help me out in setting up these backquotes.

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:53 pm

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echo \`cows\` > /tmp/moo

mudasir · Post by **mudasir** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:56 pm

AOA,

Dear Mr. Lambda,

Thank you so much, you have solved all my problems...thank you again