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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there a simpler way to achieve this? Post 302417482 by mlott on Thursday 29th of April 2010 08:16:41 PM
Old 04-29-2010
Hi guys

Brilliant, thanks for that, and apologies for the late posting.

It never even dawned on me to put the variable on the end of the path. Instead all I could think about was populating arrays and over-complicating things.... After all, the ${FQDN} is just a regular file. A definite case for not seeing the forest for the trees!

Mike
 

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