Subj : Re: Running a command dynamically in a script
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Fri Jul 09 2004 10:08 am

steve enlightened us with:
> - 'ps' executes but does not redirect the output to a_file
> - Quite possibly because of this, when a_file can't be written to
> (maybe the
>   target directory is owned by someone else), the status is 0 when it,
> in
>   fact, failed.

$ help eval

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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