Am 27.11.2008 um 21:35 schrieb Erick Perez:
thanks Robert, If i do what you said for linia in `cat /etc/passwd` do user=echo $linea | awk -F : '{ print $1 }' nombre=echo $linea | awk -F : '{ print $5 }' echo "the name is $nombre" echo "zmprov ma $user@$domain displayName $nombre">>$file x=$[x+1] done then I have: the name is echo So it seems i have problems with quotes... either " or ` goes somewhere.... now..on my way to reaad about escape sequences in echo.
Backquotes Around everything right of the "=". Rainer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos