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Old 10-28-2008
Separating values from a file and putting to a variable

I am writing into a file testfile.txt values like

./XXXXXXCZ1/tprcm10c.bin
./XXXXXXCZ1_HOT/tprcm09c.bin
./XXXXXXCZ_cold/tprcm05c.bin
I want to store the values of tprcm*.bin and XXXXXXCZ* in separate variables
Can anybody Pls hlp me out with this ...

Thanks
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Old 10-28-2008
use awk:

Code:
awk -F"/" '{print $2 " ---- "$3}' filename

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Old 10-29-2008
Thanks ... Summer cherry ...

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