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Old 03-26-2008
SED command is not executing within the shell
Hallo everybody

I am having a shell script called auto_run.sh in that only the first line works.
the second line which has sed command is working only at the # prompt. not within the shell script. Your help is highly appreciated.Thank you in advance.



exec auto_inv.4ge >KTI
sed 's/ //g' KTI > abc
exit
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Old 03-26-2008
exec replaces the shell with the command you use auto_inv.4ge. That command obviously does not understand sed.

In my understanding, exec is typically used to replace one shell with another. Example:
Code:
exec ksh

 
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