>
VARIABLE=`grep .....`
Take care of the quotes.. its the one present before "1" on an English keyboard
Cheers
Aravind S
> Hi, one more question: how can i assign the result from grep or awk to a
> variable in shell script? Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aravind Sadagopan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:36 PM
> Subject: Re: shell script
>
> > you can use xargs to pass the output to rm..I will be like
> > ldapsearch uid=userabc homedirectory | grep homedirectory | awk -F=
> '{print
> > $2;}| xargs rm -Rf
> >
> > Cheers
> > Aravind S
> >
> > Vineeta wrote:
> >
> > > What is the output of /home/userabc like?
> > > Does it contain sub-directories which u want to be removed?
> > > give me a sample and i'll help you out.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Vineeta
> > >
> > > Corisen wrote:
> > >
> > > > i'm writing a simple shell script to automate removal of directories.
> > > >
> > > > i've managed to extract the user home directory from LDAP server using
> > > > "ldapsearch uid=userabc homedirectory | grep homedirectory | awk -F=
> '{print
> > > > $2;}'".
> > > >
> > > > the above command result is "/home/userabc"
> > > >
> > > > pls advise how i can pass the result of "/home/userabe" to "rm -f -r"
> to
> > > > delete the directory?
> > > >
> > > > thanks.
> > > >
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