Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

My appologies for asking a very basic question but...

In a shell, I enter:
echo tit | sed -e s/tit/tat/g

This returns:
tat

as expected.

But when I enter:
set test = `echo tit | sed -e s/tit/tat/g`
echo $test

This returns an empty line.

Why is this so and how can I get my variable "test" to contain the result of my sed command rather than an empty result?

Thank you!

That might work in the C shell.
But if you are working in either Bash or Korn shell, then remove the "set" keyword and the spaces around the "=".

Code:

$
$ test=`echo tit | sed -e s/tit/tat/g`
$ echo $test
tat
$

HTH,
tyler_durden

Code:

test=`echo tit | sed 's/tit/tat/g'`

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

That was it. Thank you!