Re: SED question

[Ben Lutgens]

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:53:26AM +0200, Andrew Hately wrote:
> What do you want in the variable? Multiple lines?
> Did you try
> set foo=$( grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g" )
> Whats the greater context?
> Andrew
> 
I finally got it with
export GREP_RESULT=`grep $LOCATION $HOME/roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"`
I had to use the back quotes``
thanx