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Old 08-25-2008
How to assign value to a variable with row(using -n) returned by sed

Hi Friends,

REQUIREMENT: Want to delete files from the current directory match with the same in the file test.txt

set -x
i=1
echo "i=$i"
COUNT=`sed -n '$=' test.txt`
echo "Count=$COUNT"
while [ $i -lt $COUNT ]
do


"## Here is error##"
FILETOREMOVE=`sed -n \'$i,1p\' test.txt`


echo $FILETOREMOVE
rm -f $FILETOREMOVE
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

Please let me know what is right way to assign value to a variable with rows(using -n) returned by sed?
 

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