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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting special characters giving problem Post 302351755 by sam25 on Wednesday 9th of September 2009 11:26:45 AM
Old 09-09-2009
special characters giving problem

Hi All,

I have a CSV file in which some fields contains special character for ex:-

my file is file 1

Code:
cat file1
abcd,bgfht,ngbht,abvc ****
hdlld,hsgdt,bhfy,knht ****

whenever i am trying to put a 4th feild in a variable its giving me list of all the files i have in current directory like:-

Code:
cat file1|while read line
do
 
VARIABLE=`echo $line|awk -F "," '{print $4}'`
done

instead of giving abvc **** and knht **** in a variable its giving me
abvc file1 file2 file3...etc all the files which i have in my directory.Smilie


Please suggest.

Regards,
SAM

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 09-09-2009 at 12:31 PM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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