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Old 01-03-2012
Ambiguous command

I have run the following command and getting $fout: Ambiguous.
Code:
set fout = `echo "$fnameLst" | awk '{gsub(/-dc[0-9.]*/,""); print}' | sort -u`

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Old 01-03-2012
Are you trying to hold the output in variable 'fout'? If so, try this:
Code:
fout=`echo "$fnameLst" | awk '{gsub(/-dc[0-9.]*/,""); print}' | sort -u`

Without spaces around '='
# 3  
Old 01-03-2012
Yes, that is what I am trying.

Finally understood what is going wrong.
Code:
set fout = `echo "$fnameLst" | awk '{gsub(/-dc[0-9.]*/,""); print}' | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u`

 
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