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Hi,

I've just downloaded the following files and have been tinkering with using zsh on my NT box.

Z-shell executable:

ftp://ftp.blarg.net/users/amol/zsh/zsh.exe.gz

Unix Utilities:
...

Welcome to the club ;-)

Using $* will separate the tokens with a space when it outputs them. "$*" will retain the IFS that you set.

$ IFS="," set a b c; echo $*; echo "$*"
$ a b c
$ a,b,c

I must be half asleep today ;-)

This is what you want...

sed -n 's/^.*\(PATTERN\).*$/\1/p' yourFile

or even better (in terms of performance)...

sed -n '/PATTERN/s/^.*\(PATTERN\).*$/\1/p'...

Apologies, the 'function funcName' syntax should set $0 to the name of the function.

The POSIX standard 'funcName () ' syntax would behave as I indicated earlier.

If you used the ksh...

Using sed...

sed 's/^.*\(PATTERN\).*$/\1/' yourFile

$0 represents the name of the current shell (or script). Functions execute in the original shell, so $0 would still represent the script name.

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