On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 19:17, JM wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script that contains this line... > > echo $i | grep mystring | grep $now | cut -d ' ' -f11 > This line outputs numbers... > > But when I tried to place the value to a variable like the line below.. > b=`echo $i | grep mystring | grep $now | cut -d ' ' -f11` > and tried to echo variable b... its outputs nothing.. can someone > tell me why im getting an empty string?
i='0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7'; echo $i | cut -d ' ' -f7 6 b=`i='0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7'; echo $i | cut -d ' ' -f7`; echo $b 6 yes it does ??? i dontno the val of your vars but could it be the field number -f11 valueing a nil ? ------------------ - stderr(Cagayan de Oro) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
