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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] Capturing output in a korn variable Post 302641069 by daurin on Tuesday 15th of May 2012 03:00:33 PM
Old 05-15-2012
Yes indeed. Was embarrassed to post all my spaghetti, but here it is:
(PS. was forced to chop up the urls since this is a new account)

PPS. Got it squared from your comments re IFS this afternoon, cut my code back out of the post.
Thanks again!
Last edited by daurin; 05-15-2012 at 08:44 PM.. Reason: Code tags
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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