Re: Setting a variable from a shellcommand

[Mark . Burgess]

Look up builtin functions in the reference documentation

M

On 21 Oct, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> 
> I may be obtuse, but short of writing a module how can I set a cfengine 
> variable from the output of a shellcommand?  I could have sworn I've 
> seen it done before, but I can't find it.
> 
> I want to do set a variable (call it $(my_ypserver)) to the output of 
> the /usr/bin/ypwhich command.  A module seems like overkill for this....
> 
> 
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