In bash shell or scripting it is possible to assign a command to a variable using command the below simple syntax.
Syntax:
Examples:
# mylist="ls -ltrha"
# $mylist
total 0
-rw-r--r--@ 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:46 Annual-Queries-2023.xlsx
-rw-r--r--@ 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:46 ToDo-List.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:48 prod-script.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:48 satge-script.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:50 .secret-records.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 c2ctech staff 0B May 4 21:50 .config
drwxr-xr-x 2 c2ctech staff 64B May 4 21:50 .unclassified
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 c2ctech staff 160B May 4 22:00 Archive-2010-2020
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 c2ctech staff 128B May 4 22:01 Archive-2020-2030
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 c2ctech staff 384B May 4 22:11 .
drwx------@ 19 c2ctech staff 608B May 4 22:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 c2ctech staff 224B May 4 22:20 myfilesAs you can see in the above example, we have assigned the ls command with options to the mylist variable, next when we execute the variable using a $ prefix, our command stored in the variable gets executed.
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