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matto

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From: Münster/germany

Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 88

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scripting, basic problems

hi!
i am writing a batch script and would like to know if you can do the following:
in my script i want to use: mp3info -p %a $1 ,  this prints the "artist" of a given file to the terminal. but i want to store this in a string! i tried " > yeah[0]" but without success ;-) how do i do that??
in mind i want something like that:

yeah[0]= mp3info -p %a $1
echo -----
echo name:
echo ${yeah[0]}
echo -----

greetings matto

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i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: scripting, basic problems

bla=`echo bla`

See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ for more info.

smith

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From: Crescent City, CA

Registered: 2005-02-19

Posts: 77

Re: scripting, basic problems

My bash knowledge is a bit rusty but this might work:

artist=`mp3info -p %a $1`
echo $artist

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: scripting, basic problems

This is newbie corner, so the original poster probably won't notice tha those are back tics, and not apostrophes around the command. IE: the thingy under the tilde (~) key in the upper left corner.

A more nestable syntax that is recommended by modern bash is:

artist=$(mp3info -p %a $1)

Dusty

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