Redirect question

yoavbe · #1 (**permalink**) 06-24-2006

Hi,

I need some help to achive the follwoing task:
I have a file named test that contain the following line:
'Hellow world','good morning'

I want to attach the content of this file to a variable named var , and then rediarect it to a second file bamed test_new.
The result should look like this:

var='Hellow world','good morning'

Regards

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2006

Your requirements are not clear to me.

Code:

cp test test_new

does what you ask instead of this which does what I think you said -

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
var=$(cat test)
echo "$var" > test_new

yoavbe · #3 (**permalink**) 06-24-2006

Thanks Jim.
Its not what i meant but it help me .
Thanks Again.

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