Hello all,

I am new to bash. I am trying to get a sub string of a variable in a shell script. While trying to do that I get the following error:

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OHOME: /aaa/bbb/product/eee
./t.sh: line 6: /aaa/bbb/product/eee: No such file or directory
Oracle Base:
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Here is the code:

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#!/bin/sh

OHOME=/aaa/bbb/product/eee
echo " OHOME: "$OHOME

O_BASE=echo $OHOME | awk -F"/" '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++) {if($i=="product"){exit;} a=a"/"$i; }} '

echo " Oracle Base: "$O_BASE
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I am very surprised. Since it does not seem to like "echo $OHOME" I tried several things like enclosing in brackets, single/double quotes, etc. I still get this error. I cannot seem to find the syntax from the book or google

Looks very simple, but I am stuck on this for hours. Maybe experts here can guide me.

Here is our Linux version:

Linux <name> 2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 12:40:47 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Rocky.