Re: HowTo : skip a null ls and not be blocked

[Teodor Georgiev]

of you want to run the command in the quotes and to assign its output to the file variable - then you do it wrong. put the reverse quotes.   `   `   not   '     '   ----- Original Message ----- From: cana rich To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:10 PM Subject: HowTo : skip a null ls and not be blocked Hello,      I've writen a script like this : #!/usr/bsh file='ls -1 /home/directory/*' echo $file .... Meanwhile, when there is nothing in this directory, the script is blocked. I've tried to put : file='ls -1 /home/directory/*' >> /dev/null but it doesn't work. Can you help me please? Thanks Canarich Yahoo! Mail -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français !