problem assigning values to variable

finalight · #1 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008

Date of Request: 20080514 10:37 Submitted By: JPCHIANG

i want to get the value "JPCHIANG" only in read a file, however, when i do this:
name=`"$line"|cut -d " " -f8`

it display all the line and append 'not found' at the end of the statement

the $line is actually a variable in a loop for reading line by line in a file.

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008

Code:

name=`echo "$line"|cut -d " " -f8`

finalight · #3 (**permalink**) 05-19-2008

ok thanks a lot, it works

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