Re: backtick help
[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
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"Gisle Vanem" <[email protected]> wrote: > But I really need an output w/o the quotes. So I tried: > VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4 | sed -e /\\"//` You missed the "s" in the sed command. You'll also need a "g" at the end of it: VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4 | sed -e s/\\"//g` This might be easier to read: VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4 | tr -d '"'` paul