On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:37:26PM -0800, Ben Lutgens <blutgens@mosquitonet.com> wrote: > I am writing a shell script using sed I need to figure out how I can store the > output of > > grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" > > to a variable. roam.db has entries like, one per line. value=`grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"` Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes ('). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping." --Friedrich Nietzsche
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