Re: [9fans] Environment variable

[arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp]

On 2006/08/09, at 20:39, Martin Neubauer wrote:
> Well, now I have tried. It doesn't do the trick.
> b=`{cat /env/a}^''
> gives a warning if a is an empty string but works otherwise.
> b=$`{basename /env/a}
> is the cleanest solution, I think.

The solution is same as
b=$a
this works if a is already a shell variable.

Try
c=''	# null string
a=()
b=()
cp /env/c /env/a
then exec
b=$`{basename /env/a}