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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to insert a string and variable at specified position in command in bash? Post 303042140 by RudiC on Monday 16th of December 2019 09:41:39 AM
Old 12-16-2019
That desired command is different from the one in post #1. What exactly and finally do you need?



Why the detour using $id in lieu of using the file names in the directory immediately?
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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       blaze-remove removes a blog post or a page with the specified id from the BlazeBlogger repository.

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