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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers assigning (numeric) command output to var tcsh Post 302230938 by psran on Monday 1st of September 2008 04:35:08 AM
Old 09-01-2008
Thanks folks...

Thanks for the really helpful posts.

A combination of writing only ints to standard output from my program and the use of backtics has cracked my problem.

Thanks for spending the time to explain & provide a solution too - much appreciated.
 

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