RE: backtick variable substitution

2004-04-22 Thread Jayakumar Rajagopal
-Original Message- From: hdan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:14 PM To: Jayakumar Rajagopal Cc: hdan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backtick variable substitution Yes, it works at a ksh prompt: harold$ cat -n app_system.log.7 | grep -E 'period'

Re: backtick variable substitution

2004-04-22 Thread hdan
Rajagopal wrote: Harold, (bottom posted) -Original Message- From: hdan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:54 PM To: Jayakumar Rajagopal Cc: hdan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backtick variable substitution Thanks. I've tried that, but it didn't work. I

RE: backtick variable substitution

2004-04-22 Thread Jayakumar Rajagopal
Harold, (bottom posted) -Original Message- From: hdan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:54 PM To: Jayakumar Rajagopal Cc: hdan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backtick variable substitution Thanks. I've tried that, but it didn't work. I've a

Re: backtick variable substitution

2004-04-22 Thread hdan
Thanks. I've tried that, but it didn't work. I've also tried using exec and system instead of backticks. I tried using eval, too, although I wasn't sure where to put it in the statement. -harold Jayakumar Rajagopal wrote: Hi hdan, try \$ for $. I did not test it anyway. HTH, Jay -Origin

RE: backtick variable substitution

2004-04-22 Thread Jayakumar Rajagopal
Hi hdan, try \$ for $. I did not test it anyway. HTH, Jay -Original Message- From: hdan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backtick variable substitution Hi all, Hopefully someone can help me out with this one. I have a perl