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12-26-2006

ravi raj kumar ravi raj kumar is offline

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What is index?

hi,

In a shell script i came accross the following lines

1.for i in ` find /home/oracle -name ch'
2.do
3.echo $i
4.idx=`expr index $i .`
5.done

Here iam not able to understand the porpose of the word "index" in line 4.

any help ?

cheers
RRK

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