'echo' to perfrom 'ls' command

[MagnumVP]

Is it possible to allow the echo command to perform a 'ls' command in the KORN shell?

I've tried;
>list='ls'
>echo $list
>ls

AND

>list="ls"
echo $list
ls

Any thoughts?

MagnumVP

 

[mrjazz]

Hi MagnumVP,

in the Korn Shell the follwing is possible:

$ echo *
will give you a list of all files in your working directory.

If you want to store that list in a variable then you have to use back quotes:

$ list=`ls`
$ echo $list
will give you exactly the same output as the echo command.

mrjazz

 

[jad]

list=`ls`
echo list

would work ... but the actual work isw done at the list=`ls` stage.

note these are backquotes.