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Old 04-08-2008
redirect the grep output into the variable
i want to redirect the grep output into the variable
but i am not able to get it

i tried
Code:
veri=`grep -i $1 "${logdir}"* | grep -i adding | grep -iv equation | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 1`

Code:
vari=$(grep -i $1 "${logdir}"* | grep -i adding | grep -iv equation | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 1)

BUT NOT working ...
please give us some alternate way to do this please
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-08-2008 at 10:48 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 04-08-2008
Do you get any error message? What's in $logdir? What's in $veri and $vari after these commands?
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