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Old 03-11-2009
mojoman mojoman is offline
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Assigning value in a text file to a variable
Hi,

I need to place a number located in a text file in a variable so I can perform if/then comparison. How would I go about doing this? Using A=awk '{print $2}' maintenance_date.tmp does not seem to work.

Thanks