Not sure if that title is decent, but here we go. I'm running this string of commands:
Code:
qstat -f $1 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -n -e ":a" -e "$ s/\n//gp;N;b a" | sed 's/\\,/,/' | awk -F"PBS_O_WORKDIR=" '{print $2}' | awk -F",PBS_O_SYSTEM" '{print $1}'
In case you're curious is takes the output of a PBS queue, removes all the leading spaces, removes all the linebreaks, removes the backslash escape character in front of any commas, then grabs the output between two strings, effectively extracting a variable from a large mess of output from PBS.
When I run that, it works just fine, all steps work perfectly. However, when I direct the output into a variable, the
sed command to remove the backslash fails.
So, I simplified the problem:
echo "Hello\,World" |
sed 's/\\,/,/' --> "Hello,World"
var=`echo "Hello\,World" |
sed 's/\\,/,/'`; echo $var --> "Hello\,World"
any thoughts?
