Any ideas? I am attempting to write a script that uses sed.

If done this way it fails

  • rmdec=“sed ‘s/…$//’”
  • i1xmr=$(echo “$i1p/$apiresponse*1000” |bc -l |$rmdec)

But if i do it this way it works

  • i1xmr=$(echo “$i1p/$apiresponse*1000” |bc -l | sed ‘s/…$//’)
  •  Andy   ( @Andy@programming.dev ) 
    1•8 months ago

    It might be because it’s a single string, and might work if you store it or expand it as an array. I think it would in Zsh, anyway.

    But the response to use a function instead is probably wiser.

    •  brie   ( @brie@beehaw.org ) 
      3•8 months ago

      Strings work fine, the problem is the (single) quotes:

      ~ $ foo="echo 'hello world'"
~ $ for x in $foo; do echo $x; done
echo
'hello
world'
~ $ $foo
'hello world'
~ $ eval "$foo"
hello world

      The splitting is by whitespace, so the single quotes remain in the arguments. Using eval (and double quotes to preven splitting), it gets processed correctly. That said, don’t use eval; use functions or aliases instead.