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Originally Posted by gzs553 Anyone who can assist : I am trying to pass the group vairiable to a filename: rpt_tsavegrp=/export/legato/scripts/$group_savegrp_rpt.$dat It will not pass to variable.

What do you mean, "will not pass to variable"? What does happen? What do you want to happen?

Are both "$group_savegrp_rpt" and "$dat defined"?

Or do you mean:

Code:

rpt_tsavegrp=/export/legato/scripts/${group}_savegrp_rpt.$dat

Why make two identical calls to an external command?

Code:

rdat=$dat

Where is $group_savegrp_rpt defined?

That will fail if there are any spaces in the arguments. Use:

Code:

cat "$@" > "$savegrp"

What are you sending to /dev/null? If it's outside the backticks, you are doing nothing, since an assignment doesn't produce any output. If it's inside, there will be nothing assign to the variable.

It's not clear what you are trying to do here. Whatever it is, you can almost certainly do it without calling three external commands; in fact, probably without any:

Code:

read a b c d e f < "$savegrp"
case "$a $b $c $d $e $f" in ## adjust to where 'media' might appear
  *media*) group="$d $e" ;;
esac