PipeRead to SetEnv

Configuration General Questions
1

I’m having a problem, and I’m sure it is something stupid, but I can’t figure it out. I want to take the output of a perl script and store it in an environment variable, but it only stores a 0 in it. I also tried the same with just echo and I get the same results.

For example:SetEnv var PipeRead "echo tester"

Then when I try to echo it gives me a 0: sh-2.05b$ echo $[var] 0

What am I doing wrong?

2

PipeRead passes whatever you tell it to the underlying shell, which then evaluates what you tell it, and passes it back to FVWM. So you really mean to write:

PipeRead 'echo SetEnv var ....'

– Thomas Adam

3

Awesome! Thanks again Thomas.

I did this:

PipeRead "echo SetEnv var `echo tester`"