[ILUG] FW: scripting help / question

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

or xargs per chance, I was just messing around really but thanks for the
reply. 

-----Original Message-----
From: fergal daly [mailto:fergal at esatclear.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:11 PM
To: Stephen_Reilly at exchange.dell.com
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] FW: scripting help / question


Stephen_Reilly at dell.com wrote:
> 
> exec `ls .? | sed "s/^./grep -i \'&/g" | sed "s/$/\' file/g"`
> logs me out, can't say as I blame it either

I think it's meant to. Why are you using exec? The idea with exec is
that it completely replaces the currently running process with a new
one, the result is that the bash shell you were running is completely
obliterated, so that when the commands above finish that's it, the
process ends and you have no shell to return to.

I've only just reliased what you're trying to do and I reckong you want
eval, this will execute it's arguments as a command and will return you
to the shell when finished,

Fergal