BASH Questions

[Greg]

In my script I want to run a command that doesn't exit, but I want the script to continue. Once the script exits I still want the command to still be running. I guess this is sort of a BASH newb question, but meh.

Thanks

 

[Greg]

Solved the below problem. Still need the answer to my first one, though.

I have another question to go along with the first.

The command echo info | netcat localhost 12345 -q 1 | grep Title | cut -c10- will output the name of the song that is playing in VLC, but I can't seem to set this as a variable and use it. Here's an example:


Running this script will just output "Song title: "

[SIZE=2][COLOR=Gray]
#!/bin/bash 
vlcinfo=`echo info | netcat localhost 12345 -q 1 | grep Title | cut -c10-` 
echo "Song title: $vlcinfo"[/COLOR][/SIZE]

But running this script will work fine:

[SIZE=2][COLOR=Gray]
#!/bin/bash 
echo "Song title: `echo info | netcat localhost 12345 -q 1 | grep Title | cut -c10-`"[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=Gray] 
 [/COLOR][/SIZE]

I'm trying to use this in an if statement, so the above are just examples.

 

[Greg]

Whoops, please delete this post.

 

[Sodaen]

Cron that s*** fool.

Oh...nevermind.