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Old 03-17-2009
extracting value in variable??

Hi
in Below example.
i want "n = aa.txt.gz"
?????????????
plz help
m=aa.txt
n=echo`gzip $m`
echo $n
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Old 03-17-2009
m=aa.txt.gz
n=`gzcat $m`
echo $n
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