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Hi,

I am stuck assigning a value to a variable.
I am trying to assign a value to a variable but getting error....

IP_ADDR=grep 'I.P. Address' /install/cfgdist/`uname -n`.cfg | cut -d : -f 2| cut -d . -f 1-3| sed s/" "//g

I am using this script to grep first three octets of an IP address from a file and assign the value to IP_ADDR....but I am not able to assign the value to the variable...

Please some one help.

Regards,
Abhishek

I tried like this after searching for it in the forums....

I=`grep 'I.P. Address' /install/cfgdist/`uname -n`.cfg | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d . -f 1-3 | sed s/" "//g`

But its giving the error as:
abhits/39:[~] 183) ./abhi
./abhi: .cfg: not found
./abhi: -n: not found
Exit 1

If I run it on shell its working
abhits/39:[~] 185) grep 'I.P. Address' /install/cfgdist/`uname -n`.cfg
| cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d . -f 1-3 | sed s/" "//g
172.174.158

Please can someone help

Regards,
Abhi

If you are executing it from the script, try double quotes like this:
I="grep 'I.P. Address' /install/cfgdist/`uname -n`.cfg | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d . -f 1-3 | sed s/" "//g"

Hi, the above maynot work.
Why not break the query into multiple statements and try executing each one of them and see which part is giving the error ?

Hi Sank,
Ya it didn't work but thanks anyways...
I tried with putting ksh as the shell
#! /bin/ksh -p

and then using it like this
I=$(grep 'I.P. Address' /install/cfgdist/`uname -n`.cfg | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d . -f 1-3 | sed s/" "//g)

and it worked

Thanks.
Regards,
Abhi