[Gambas-user] OT: BASH help!

[Rob]

On Monday 12 May 2008 00:24, Hamish Robertson wrote:
> You're a champion! thank you so much! One last question...how do I
> pipe the output into a variable(String) to be used in the control
> file? I'm guessing the perl script here will be the easiest. If I
> can get a variable that will work in my bash script I'm away! :)

The simplest way would be backticks or $() (which place the output of 
a command into a variable.)  In this case, backticks might require 
some quoting, but with $() you should be able to go,

export MYVAR=$(perl -e 'print join(", ", map { s/.deb$//; $_ } 
split("\n", `ls *.deb`)), "\n";')

and then MYVAR will contain the comma-separated list.

I think if you need any more Bash help you should probably talk to me 
in private, though when it comes to building .deb packages I'm pretty 
ignorant.

Rob