sh question: commands as variables / stream operators in a variable
Christopher Friedt
cfriedt-u6hQ6WWl8Q3d1t4wvoaeXtBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 11 11:33:43 UTC 2007
This is a bit of a tricky thing to work around, but i would basically
like to include shell stream operators in a variable that will
eventually be a command string.
Particularly, I would like to make compression selectable in a script
through a variable which contains the pipe operator '|' and then run a
command (stored also as a variable) which would include a redirect on
stdout '>'
Does anyone know why something like this wouldn't work (at least in bash) ?
My output is:
cat: invalid option -- 9
Try `cat --help' for more information.
Any suggestions are very welcome ;-)
~/Chris
A simple test script is here:
#!/bin/sh
echo 'Hello World!' > test.txt
CMD="cat test.txt"
OUTFILE="test2.txt"
# COMP can be one of '', 'bzip2', 'gzip'
COMP="bzip2"
COMP_CMD=""
case "$COMP" in
("bzip2")
COMP_CMD=" | bzip -9 "
OUTFILE="${OUTFILE}.bz2"
;;
("gzip")
COMP_CMD=" | gzip -c -9 "
OUTFILE="${OUTFILE}.gz"
;;
("")
COMP_CMD=""
;;
(*)
exit 1
;;
esac
CMD="${CMD} ${COMP_CMD} > ${OUTFILE}"
exit $?
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