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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] problem assigning value Post 302572573 by aksijain on Thursday 10th of November 2011 10:06:03 AM
Old 11-10-2011
[Solved] problem assigning value

Hi,

This is the script that am trying to execute.
Code:
a= sar 1 5 | grep ^A | awk '{print $5}'
echo $a

i am getting output.
99

i get a blank space for echo $a.
Why is the value not getting assigned to a??

Thanks in Advance.

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