Poke a Shell Variable with xTalk?
Mark Waddingham
36degrees at runrev.com
Tue Sep 13 12:52:36 EDT 2005
You can both read and write to shell variables in Revolution. So the
following:
put foo into $FOO
put shell("echo $FOO")
Results in what you would expect in the message-box :o)
In other-words, what you are trying to do should work fine...
Hope this helps!
Mark.
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 07:52 -1000, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> Can we pass data from a local variable in Revolution to a variable in
> shell.? How?
>
> eg.
>
> in shell
>
> cat <<some_variable
> test
> test
> test
> >>some_variable
>
> gives us "$some_variable"
>
> where
>
> echo $some_variable #gives us
>
> test
> test
> test
>
>
>
> now what we want to do is
>
> put "Greetings to all innovative Revolutionaries" into tGreeting
>
> [pseudo code here:]
>
> put tGreeting into $Greeting
>
> set the shellcommand to "/bin/sh"
> put "cat $Greeting" & " | sendmail -f hpi.list at hindu.org " & (fld
> "to" of cd "staticText") into tCmd
>
> put shell(tCmd) into tResult
>
> # where the contents of $Greeting is piped to sendmail...
>
> I know we can read $ variable from the system, but can we create and
> poke them?
>
> TIA
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
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