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honeymak
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:37 am    Post subject: bash problem? Reply with quote

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g64 ~ # bash -x d=($(equery l \*))
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('


is it problem in bash or equery?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is your goal here?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bash expects a filename as argument, not some random code.
Also not sure what your plan was with that, equery is a python script, so bash -x has no effect on it.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Assuming you're trying to do this in a bash session, and not in some other interactive shell:

If you simply want to assign the output of `equery l *` to the variable `d`, and want `*` as a wildcard/glob for all the entries in the current directory, rather than passing an asterisk as an argument to equery (which would be .... odd), you can just do:

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$ d=$(equery l *)

Which means: "Run `equery l *` in a subshell, and put resulting output in the `d` variable."
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

flexibeast wrote:
If you simply want to assign the output of `equery l *` to the variable `d`, and want `*` as a wildcard/glob for all the entries in the current directory, rather than passing an asterisk as an argument to equery (which would be .... odd), you can just do:
Although unusual in general, for equery l, this is well-defined. Per the manual, this instructs equery to list all installed packages.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hu wrote:
Per the manual, this instructs equery to list all installed packages.

Ah okay, thank you!
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