On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 10:25 -0700, rinkal patel wrote: > Need some help... > > ->. Does anybody know to extract a single line and > store it in a variable thorough shell command.....Plz > tell me...
Depends on what program you use to get the line out of a file. For example if you want the first line from a text file: a=`head -n 1 file.txt` echo $a If you want the last line: a=`tail -n 1 file.txt` echo $a and so on HTH, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Alcohol, an alternative to your self - 'Alcohol' by the Bare Naked Ladies -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
