Jeff Boyce wrote:
Greetings -
I am having a problem using CUT to obtain a subset of text within a variable in a simple shell script. The purpose of the shell script is to obtain the current name of the tape in my tape drive so that I can determine if it the appropriate tape to recycle. The first line of the script reads the name currently assigned to the tape. The output of VALUE2 below should produce the text *Wednesdays*, instead it is producing nothing. If I manually enter..... tpname=Wednesdays|cut -f2 --delimiter=..... I get the output.... Wednesdays. But when running the script below I get nothing. $VALUE1|cut -f2 -d= produces the same result. What am I missing, possibly some simple escape or quote?
Input Script VALUE1=`arkc -drive -read -D name=BisonTape` echo 'Value1 : '$VALUE1 VALUE2=$VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter= echo 'Value2 : '$VALUE2
Display Output Value1 : tpname=Wednesdays Value2 :
Jeff Boyce www.meridianenv.com
hi, you missed the echo command and back quotes
try this..
VALUE2=`echo $VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter=`
regards, saravanan
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