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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regarding ENV variable
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:46:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104104626.GA15515@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikkfMzdQ+dwo1cAWDV8ApGXv+=1O0y5ZVeNVsDC@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:08:51PM +0530, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote:
> i'm setting environment variable by set mycmd="knetbsd netbsd.g"
> 
> if call my own command, end up with no argument error.
> grub> myboot $mycmd
> myboot: usage knetbsd <filename>
> 
> if do echo $mycmd, getting the correct string
> grub> echo $mycmd
> knetbsd netbsd.g
> 
> if i directly run, throw unknown command
> grub>$mycmd
> error: unknown command `knetbsd netbsd.g'.
> 
> How do i pass 2 arguments from single env variable or how to run the
> env as command?

I don't think this is possible right now.  We would need to have some
equivalent of the shell 'eval' builtin.  The underlying pieces are
present (e.g. grub_script_execute_sourcecode) but aren't exposed in the
GRUB scripting interface.

If you aren't able to add this extension to GRUB script yourself and
propose a patch, I suggest reworking your code in some other form.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-03 13:38 Regarding ENV variable Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-04 10:46 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2011-01-04 12:30   ` BVK Chaitanya
2011-01-04 12:36   ` Andreas Born
2011-01-04 12:54     ` Colin Watson
2011-01-05  9:00       ` Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-05  9:16         ` BVK Chaitanya
2011-01-05  9:21           ` Gnanasekar Loganathan

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