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Thank you guys .. its clear now ... thanks corona for the "dirty little" function it gave an template to work upon . mcnamara thanks for the cute little code emphasizing the entire point quite...

Seems crude but work done !!
bash-3.00$ nawk '{if ($3 == "COMP128_3") ORS="\n" ; else ORS="," } 1 '

Yes i am aware of popen , but something else which mimics exactly command-substitution (``) of shell ?? How is it achieved in shell ??

Hi,

I want to know if there's a cleaner way for assigning output of a unix command to a variable in C program .

Example : I execute dirname fname and want the output to be assigned to a...

Your suggesstion is quite acceptable and i have implemented it. Thanks for your suggestion . Still the vagueness of the code haunts me and keeps me trying to debug it repeatedly.

Figuring out...

Can u post your requirements and sample script . To help better we need to understand logic better.

FIND-BASED:

{} is used for passing find output to exec as an argument.
; is for terminating the exec part ; its escaped by \ so that bash ignore it or bash would take is as an subsequent...

Hi folks

I am working on a script which lists files of a specific pattern on a remote m/c and tar&zip them to another remote m/c via a centralized server.

M/C details:

remote1 - OSF1...