Re: SED question

[Etienne Grossmann <etienne@isr.isr.ist.utl.pt>]

  Hello,

> 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.
>
> florida: 555-1212

  you mean, in a shell variable? In bash and maybe sh this should work :

myvar=`grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"`

  HTH,

  Etienne