Re: Invoking cdbdump from a bash script, hanging

Chris Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
>      bindir="/usr/local/bin"
>      DATA='data.cdb'
>
>      command="$bindir/cdbdump < $DATA";
>      echo "$command";
>      `$command`;

This will run /usr/local/bin/cdbdump with the arguments "<" and
"data.cdb".  After variables are expanded, the replacement value is
subject to word splitting, but metacharacters are not given their
usual special treatment.

Also, you don't want to use backticks here: even if $command did what
you wanted, the shell would then try to interpret cdbdump's output as
a command.


paul