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Urgent! UNIX shell scripting question! - microchip13 - 02-19-2006
if I'm trying to do something like 'sed - $variable p' to output a specific line, how would I get it so there aren't any spaces? would I have to use tr?
using the above I get sed - X p when I need sed -Xp
Thanks in advance!
Re: Urgent! UNIX shell scripting question! - shadow - 02-19-2006
Is this what you are looking for:
sed -${variable}p
- Shadow
Re: Urgent! UNIX shell scripting question! - shadow - 02-19-2006
Or:
CMD=`echo "sed -${variable}p"`
then just put $CMD where you want to execute the command.
- Shadow
Re: Urgent! UNIX shell scripting question! - microchip13 - 02-19-2006
Thankyou very much shadow!
the first one worked perfectly.
Now, onto finishing it.
Thanks!