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Old 01-10-2009
problem with (probably) grep in shell script
Hi,

im new to unix and i don't know much about shell.
So i have something like this:
Code:
LINK=`cat $FILE | egrep -A 3 "Ep.$EPI" | egrep "onclick"  | cut -d"\"" -f2 | head -1`

$FILE holds html source code and i try to cut some urls out of it.
This works well in the command line, but not in my shell script.

$LINK is still empty after step was done.

What am i doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance
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Old 01-10-2009
Is EPI an environment variable? Please post more of your code.
 
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