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From: Frank Gruellich <frank@der-frank.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:  Bash question
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070920153125.GB10595@der-frank.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F23395.7030305@sbcglobal.net>

* Anthony E. Caudel <tony.caudel@sbcglobal.net> 20. Sep 07:
> Is there any way to make "pushd" and "popd" (Bash built-ins) silent?
> [snip] For example:
> 
> OLD_VER=$(pushd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1; popd)
> echo $OLD_VER
> /boot ~ kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r2 ~

For that exact example... why you bother at all?  $( ) opens a subshell
and cd's in subshells don't interact with parent shell so you could
simply write:

 OLD_VER=$(cd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1)

or

 OLD_VER=`cd /boot; ls kernel-* | sort | head -1`

if you want to be more compatible.  Or am I missing a point?

HTH, kind regards,
 Frank.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20  8:47 [gentoo-user] OT: Bash question Anthony E. Caudel
2007-09-20  9:05 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-20 15:31 ` Frank Gruellich [this message]
2007-09-21  8:19   ` Anthony E. Caudel

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