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# 8  
Old 10-19-2008
OR for op: val1/val2/va3
u can use:
awk -F ":" '{print $3}' file
# 9  
Old 10-19-2008
Now I have a problem of a different kind.

I capture the value correctly as suggested:

myvar= var1/var2/var3

Now I want to substitute the value(FILENAME) in a file(oldfile) with myvar as follows:

sed `s/FILENAME/'$myvar'/g` oldfile newfile

The value written in newfile is var1var2var3 and I loose the /

Any solution to this?

Thanks again
lcw
# 10  
Old 10-20-2008
Sorry for the misleading post. myvar is actually of this format:

myvar= var1\var2\var3

lcw
# 11  
Old 10-20-2008
That makes a big difference; "\" is treated specially by the shell. I would start by quoting all the assignments and variable expansions:
Code:
a="`foo bar`"
echo "$a"

 
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