On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:36:09AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Here is one way but it assumes all file names begin with lower or > upper case letters: > ... > echo $ii|sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]/'"$predefined_char"'/' Excuse me if I missed something, but what's wrong with: OUTFNAME=`echo $ii|sed -e "s/^./$predefined_char/"`; -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
