From: VZELL AT de DOT oracle DOT com (Volker Zell) Subject: Bash problem 15 Nov 1997 10:34:01 -0800 Message-ID: <199711151835.TAA13839.cygnus.gnu-win32@mailm1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi all ! The following two lines of code work on the command line but not if executed from a shell script. vzell:/usr/bin> myls=`ls -lt` vzell:/usr/bin> echo $myls total 156 -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 177 Nov 15 19:13 t -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 1763 Nov 15 19:08 whatis -rw-r--r-- 1 vzell admin 1695 Nov 15 19:06 apropos -rwxr--r-- 1 vzell admin 38923 Oct 11 18:19 txt2html* #!/bin/sh myls=`ls -lt` echo $myls In this case I get an empty line. Any hints ? Ciao Volker - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".