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Old 01-24-2007
Script invoking another script

I have this script which would perform calculation and echo the value, and now I want to incorporate this calculation script in my other script, so

calculation script
==============
#!/bin/ksh

result=blah blah blah

echo $result

Other
=====
#!/bin/ksh

performance=`calculation.sh`


how can this be done?


Thanks in advance!
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Old 01-24-2007
just like you said.....
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