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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting assign var with set=a[5] not working Post 302480053 by novice_man on Tuesday 14th of December 2010 01:21:58 AM
Old 12-14-2010
assign var with set=a[5] not working
Hi Experts,

I'm having issue in assigning var with special character [], please see below for complete details.
Code:
 $ echo $SHELL
/bin/csh

$ cat bp
abd/asd/a[5]

$ awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}'
a[5]

$  set a=`awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' bp | awk '{print $1}'`

$ echo $a 
echo: No match    <=============

$  set=a[5]
set=a[5]: No match. <============

Thanks for any help !!!
Last edited by Scott; 12-14-2010 at 03:13 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
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DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

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