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Old 09-03-2013
IFS="=" temporarily sets the environment variable IFS (input field separator) to =,
the read command reads left from the IFS to the variable junk, and right from it to the variable cnt. The "standard input" is set to the file count, i.e. it reads from the file.
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Old 09-23-2013
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what i neeeded! Smilie
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