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Hi all

I have a variable called "variable" and is of the form
variable ="AAA BBB CCC DDD" {basically it has values separated by spaces}

What is the simplest way to check if "variable" has...

Vgersh, I have posted a sample in comment #1.
The only thing is that data values will be added to the "string" variable based on a condition. So for example string = aaa ccc ddd.

For example in...

Thanks guys, but lets assume that I have a really long list, in which case I cannot be assigning variables for all these data values.

Hi all,
How does string concatenation work in shell scripting?

I basically have a variable called "string" and I want to add the strings "aaa" "bbb" "ccc" "ddd" to the variable "string". These...

Hi Jim

>>you are reading from "-" which is stdin -- in this case the right hand side >>of the pipe

Can you explain this better (I mean the use of "-")? When I specify
"zcat <filename>.tar.Z...

Hi

I am trying to extract a <filename>.tar.Z on a SLES machine using zcat.

The command I am using is
zcat <filename>.tar.Z | tar xf -

When I use the above I get the following message...

Hi

#xxxxx abced

xxx_hij=

The above are two lines in a file. I would like to parse the file write a text line between the above two lines...like

#xxxxx abced
<write a text line here>...

Thanks............!

In a makefile when you specify something like....

xxx-xx:
-$(yyy) $(zzz)

What does the"-" (hyphen) before the "$" mean? (assuming xxx-xx is the target name)