Shell Programming and Scripting

you're not redirection of variable to another variable - you're redirecting to a file called variable which is a bit of a waste given other alternatives...

Yes, "sorted". See the quote from the "Edit tags" part of the thread:

That's what makes a thread turn light blue in the thread lists...

Moderator's Comments:

OK, replaced "sorted" by "solved" for you

Oh my God,
Sorted and solved.
I am sorry Rudic

Kind regards
Boris

Hello Vgersh99,
Thank you for your comment. I am not surprised when I read your post. I am not coder so my codes are like gramophone needle made by horse stirrup. Please be tolerant.

Old:

Code:

name2=$COL2
echo $name2 | sed "s|_| |g" - > variable

New:

Code:

name2=`echo $COL2 | sed "s|_| |g" `

Kind regards
Boris

It's a bit surprising that you refuse to learn and prefer

Code:

name2=$COL2
echo $name2 | sed "s|_| |g" - > variable
name=$(cat variable)

to

Code:

name=${COL2//_/ }

which would use shell internals only and save
- a FIFO creation
- two process creations
- two file operations


EDIT: admittedly, your latest solution name2=`echo $COL2 | sed "s|_| |g" ` is better than the above cited, but still is more resource intensive (still two processes and a FIFO) than the pure shell solution. Please be aware that the backticks method `...` is deprecated and should be replaced by $(...).