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Old 08-13-2010
Lovely..Thanks.
So do we need to use eval to expand variables?

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Moreover why have you used continue command in the case statement. Im gettint cannot continue error.I use ksh.
# 9  
Old 08-13-2010
Oops. Delete "continue" line - it's a paste error.

The eval is only to cause shell to look at special shell variables (like ~) after the shell program has been interpreted. I've also seen it used where a script generates an environment variable name on the fly.
# 10  
Old 08-14-2010
ok. Guess the continue for case statement doesn't work in ksh. When i ran the script in /bin/sh it returned no error for the continue statement.
Thanks much!
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