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Old 01-31-2008
namishtiwari namishtiwari is offline
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explanation for this line

Hi All,

can you please explain me the meaning of this line--

BackupLocation="/inpass/abc"
Parent=$(expr $BackupLocation : '\(.*\)/.*' \| $BackupLocation)

when i ran this as a command also it did not show me anything so could not get the purpose of this line.

Explain it please.
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