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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Apologies from a newbie! Post 302336908 by speedfreak on Thursday 23rd of July 2009 05:13:46 AM
Old 07-23-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by lathavim
Check this.

Code:
 
myfile=`ls Myfile*`
sed -e '2,1d' $myfile >file.tmp&&mv file.tmp $myfile

Unfortunately this doesn't appear to work for me. It looks as though $Myfile is actually set to 'ls Myfile*' instead of the ls command being executed and $Myfile being set to the returned file name. Error given is..

'Can't open ls'
 

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