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how would i go about storing this command in a variable

echo "$LINE" | awk -F"|" '{print $1"|"$2"|"$3"}'

i have tried FOO = ${command up there} but receive the error FOO: not found

aswell as...

oh thanks !
works

hey im having a problem with my script

replace="dir/another_dir"

sed s/something/$replace/g

is there a way i can get around this problem without using the escape string character "\"

> edit in the sense you want to replace the first field with some other word keeping other intact??
yup that was what i meant



that is very simple to understand.
thank you very much

I have a string that looks like this

username|field1|field2|field3

the data has a delimiter of "|"
how can i edit field1, keeping the rest of the data the same
also how can i edit field2 and...

oh thanks that solved my problem
it explains why the same command return different output now

i am new to the unix environment and the school have use alias to make it easier for us to use. In...

hi i am using this command which would return to be the filename
ls -l $dir1 | awk '{print $9}'

however on perl when i use:
`ls -l $dir1 | awk '{print \$9}' > tmp`
it gives me a different...

hey

how do you create a archive and add file to an existing archive.

i keep getting an error: dir/#: No such file or directory


currently using tar -cvfu name.tar files

files searching...

LOL
you don't happen to be at RMIT ?
i think the office told everyone to learn this