> "Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > echo THIS DOES NOT WORK > > foo=$(cat exp_test <<BAD | tr -d V= | grep '[0-9]*') > > V=1234 > > abcd > > BAD > > 0. Since you passed a file name to cat, it will ignore stdin. > 1. Since the here-document belongs to the command in $(), the > here-document must also be entirely inside $(). Move the closing ) > after "BAD". > 2. [0-9]* matches every line, since * matches 0 or more occurrences.
Thank you VERY much! I introduced stupidity #0 and #2, when I tried to turn my real application into a "simple example". But #1 was the explanation I was really looking for! I did not even know that a $(...) is allowed to span several lines. Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
