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Hey guys,
I am very much new to shell scripts. So you ppl may feel that i am asking stupid question here.
1. I am using command line argument as an input variable. The user gets this value in his mail from client which has commas n spaces (Eg. 12,34,56,789) and the scripts input should not contain any commas, spaces dashes etc... So to Normalise it i hv used following thing

sh 123.sh 12,34,56,789
#12,34,56,789 is jst an example of input i.e. command line argument.
echo "$1" | perl -pi -e "s/,//g;"

Now the problem is I want to take its output (i.e output of echo "$1" | perl -pi -e "s/,//g;" ) as input for next line of script. For this I tried following thing

echo "$1" | perl -pi -e "s/,//g;" | $i

But its not working... what do i do?

Code:

echo $1 | sed 's/,//g'

should work.

And you can assign that like this

Code:

S=`echo $1 | sed 's/,//g'`

Hope it answers your query.

//Jadu

Hey Thanx for the quick reply
The line written by me in script (i.e echo "$1" | perl -pi -e "s/,//g;") even that is working... but what i want to do is, i want to take the output of this line in a variable... So that i can use it further.. Do u kno how do i do it?

This has been already answered by jaduks.. Check the S variable value, in jadu's post.

var1=`echo $1 | tr "," " "`
If $1 = 1,2,3
Then var1 will contain 1 2 3.

Thanks & Regards,
Siba

Hey thanx a ton Jaduks, nua7 & Siba... finally it worked :-) I m very happy...