[plug] script problem

[Jon Miller]

I'm trying to get this line to work in  a bash shell script and I'm getting
an error stating that -c command not found.

snip of script
# first ping a name server and get results
var_res#
I've tried using " " around the command and also ` ` but these produce a
different error. 

Is there a better way of issuing the command and getting the result in the
variable?

Thanks

Jon L. Miller
MMT Networks Pty Ltd