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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Confusion about IFS Variable Post 302172827 by Awadhesh on Tuesday 4th of March 2008 07:38:26 PM
Old 03-04-2008
CPU & Memory

Frank,

dirname works wihout issue.

fpm,

oops!! sorry, i have copied script from my hp-ux system and maestab from linux system. but actully I am paasing value of $HOST by $1 in my script.
pls read HOST=eul3p3 in this case.

Thanks.

Awadhesh

Last edited by Awadhesh; 03-04-2008 at 08:50 PM.. Reason: .
 

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