On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 02:08, stderr wrote: > 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 ? > ? im sorry, ihavenoidea
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