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Old 11-21-2007
Quite elegent indeed
Quote:
Originally Posted by macosta
Eek! Forget sed and awk unless you really need regexp - moderns shells are powerful enough:
Code:
#! /bin/bash

line='echo "###Usage: $0 <database1> <database2>"'

line=${line#*<}
DB1=${line%%>*}

line=${line#*<}
DB2=${line%%>*}

printf "\$DB1=$DB1 \$DB2=$DB2\n"

This works in non-ancient versions of bash and pdksh (don't have AT&T ksh handy, but I'd expect it to work there as well.)

This is faster and more elegant, in my not-so-humble opinion Smilie

Thank you

Rakesh Gupta
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