Re: Passing variables to and from custom programs

[DennisW]

On Feb 6, 5:37 pm, djackn <jack.nadel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> May I used the following in a bash script to pass variables to myIpExec?
>
>     Result = myIpExec(${IPaddr1} ${IPaddr2} ${IPaddr3} ${IPaddr4})
>
> myIpExec is a c program that normally uses scanf to prompt the user
> for the IP addresses and returns 0 or 1.
> I plan to use the script to test the program for various inputs.
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It is more likely that this would work:

Result=$(echo "{IPaddr1} ${IPaddr2} ${IPaddr3} ${IPaddr4}" | myIpExec)

Note that there are no spaces around the equal sign.