On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:59 AM Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I tried that but I get the command not the output from the command

$ x='ls -l|wc -l'
$ echo $x
ls -l|wc -l

You need to use the backticks that Jack included. That executes the
command and replaces it with the output.

John Y.

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