Re: stupid shell tricks again

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Author: Bill Jonas
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: stupid shell tricks again
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:29:35PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I will be dammed but I can't make the line above this one work...this is
> where the problem is...
> i=`echo $line | cut -f1`;


Try:
i=`echo $line | cut -d' ' -f1`;
instead.

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