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Old 06-14-2010
Pattern matching in shell script
Hi,

I am using following command to extract string from a file. String will be after last / (slash).

Code:
awk -F\ / '{print $NF}' $FILE

but while appending the output in file in script, it dosent work. File created but of zero size... can anyone please help

Code:
`awk -F\\\/ '{print $NF}' $FILE` > /tmp/cca

# 2  
Old 06-14-2010
How about ...

Code:
$( awk -F '/' '{print $NF}' $FILE ) >> /tmp/cca

# 3  
Old 06-14-2010
You cannot use `` or $() that way. This is used for assignment to a variable...
Just use:
Code:
awk -F\/ '{print $NF}' $FILE >> /tmp/cca

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Old 06-14-2010
yeah.. thanks Scrutinizer !!
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