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You could try:
$ STRING1='ABC XYZ'
$ NEWVAR=STRING1
$ eval 'echo NEWVAR IS ACTUALLY "$'$NEWVAR'"'
NEWVAR IS ACTUALLY ABC XYZ
as a workaround. But, if I were you, I would change my shell to...

Quoting from The New Kornshell Command and Programming Language by Bolsky and Korn (copyright 1995):


There is probably a way to get replace the use of name references using eval, but I have...

Hi
Adding a backslash

WORDS2=`echo $WORDS | sed 's/[!-/:-@[-\`{-~]/ /g'`

Guru.

Does this work in your ksh?
if (( (FTPCOUNT!=0) || (RCPCOUNT!=0) ))
If not, try:
if [ $FTPCOUNT -ne 0 -o $RCPCOUNT -ne 0 ]

[/quote]That almost works. You don't need (or want) the asterisk in a call to gsub(). It matches every string of zero or more matches, which in this case effectively adds a space before any of the...

C-shell has a built-in nohup command.


[unixuser@blue ~]$ csh
[unixuser@blue ~]$ nohup
nohup: Can't from terminal.
[unixuser@blue ~]$ which nohup
nohup: shell built-in command.

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You don't need to call pax 70k times, i.e. once per file. You invoke pax once and it reads the list of files to copy from stdin. Using your variable names:
pax -rw "$DESTDIR" < "$TEMPFILE"

That...

Actually, that will descend into an mvfs filesystem (for some reason, I thought there was another -prune in the mvfs expression). What you want is something like the following (untested):
find /...

sort -u filename > filename.new