Hello. L.V.Gandhi, 10.03.2007 00:01: > I have made a script like this as test1 > #!/bin/bash > line="3IINFOTECH,20050422000000,118,118,96,98.1,8260440" > olds=$(echo "$line"|cut -d, -f2) > echo $olds > da=${olds:0:8} > echo $da > echo "$line" > temp1 > sed -e 's/$olds/$da/' temp1 >>temp
You want to use double quotes here so that the shell can expand the variables. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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