Urgent! UNIX shell scripting question!

[microchip13]

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!

[shadow]

Is this what you are looking for:

sed -${variable}p

- Shadow

[shadow]

Or:

CMD=`echo "sed -${variable}p"`

then just put $CMD where you want to execute the command.

- Shadow

[microchip13]

Thankyou very much shadow!

the first one worked perfectly.



Now, onto finishing it.

Thanks!