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Old 09-28-2006
vgirijanaidu vgirijanaidu is offline
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{} in shell programming
Could someone please tell me what {} mean when they surround a variable?

For instance,

$FILE = 'basename $1' //what is passed into this script
$BANK = 'dirname $1'
$INFILE = ${FILE}.${BANK}.$$

What does $INFILE contain after this assignment?

Please let me know
Thanks
G