Shell Programming and Scripting

I've gotten this far with this script to run at log-in

computer= netstat -I en0 | grep .dh | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed 's/\.[^/]*$//'
open http://testweb.bsu.edu/aglabreserve/login_name.asp?computer=$computer
echo $computer

Problem is: The echo tells me what I want to hear. The ASP isn't getting it.
If I try to hard code it with out put from echo with

computer='wayne-1.dhcp.bs'
open http://testweb.bsu.edu/aglabreserve/login_name.asp?computer=$computer
echo $computer

then the ASP gets it.

Is the (computer= netstat...) line of code doing something to my variable?
-chris

If this is really what you are running (ie you copied/pasted), I think you just have a syntax error. You need to encase the command in `.

You are just executing the command and setting computer to NULL. Your echo is probably just echoing a blank line - try echoing it twice. It works for me as (or as close as my variant of unix will let it):

computer=`netstat -I en0 | grep .dh | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed 's/\.[^/]*$//'`
open http://testweb.bsu.edu/aglabreserve/....asp?computer=$computer
echo $computer

Cheers,

Keith

In the original the echo does actually give me the name.
just won't feed it up to the ASP page

when I try adding the ''s

computer=`netstat -I en0 | grep .dh | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed 's/\.[^/]*$//'`

I get an error message
./loggin17.sh: netstat -I en0 | grep .dh | awk {: command not found

try putting a \ before the '

besides in
computer= netstat ....

is there a space after that =

actually i have note really understood what the asp part etc is for, but my suggestions are as for the syntaxes only. hope it helps

Kevin and LinuxPenguin, You were right the first time.
I just figured out the difference between single quotes and the back tick.
It's working now.
thanks.
-chris