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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Issue in comparing (cmp) two files Post 302317788 by aigles on Wednesday 20th of May 2009 03:02:33 AM
Old 05-20-2009
You're right! eval is required.

I think that your problem comes from the sed statements.
The $ character must be escaped.

Code:
sed '1d;\$d' /appl/data/test/uit

Jean-Pierre.
 

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