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Old 11-18-2011
Tools Script replacing * with name of file
Hi Guys,

I am new to bash and I can't figure this one out.

OS: SunOS

I have a file: myfile

A cat of myfile shows it to contain:

one * two

The shell is as following:

FILE="path/myfile"

RESULT=$(cat "$FILE"|grep one)

echo $RESULT

The output is:

one myfile two

There's the problem. I don't want it to place the word myfile in the output. I would like it to show the exact contents of myfile - one * two.

Any ideas?

Thank you all!!
# 2  
Old 11-18-2011
Code:
echo "$RESULT"

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Old 11-18-2011
That Worked!
Thank you, bartus11! Smilie
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