On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:56:33 -0600 (CST)
Vidiot <brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using zsh/
>
> When I enter the following on the command line, I get the expected
> result:
>
> echo ann001.jpg | awk "{ print substr(\$0, 1, length(\$0) -7 )
> }"
>
> Expect result = ann
>
> But, when I do this:
>
> OUT=`echo ann001.jpg | awk "{ print substr(\$0, 1, length(\$0)- -7 ) }"`
>
> I get back nothing. The variable is empty.
>
> Anyone have an idea as to why the aboce isn't working?
Have you tried:
export OUT=`echo ann001.jpg | awk "{ print substr(\$0, 1,length(\$0) -7 ) }"`
and then looked to see what the variable reads?
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