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Re: Help needed

1999-09-09 09:41:13
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Steve Carter wrote:
 
You have it mixed up.

FROM=test.fil; export FROM; cat $FROM

will cat the file

    | echo $FROM > temp.txt

might work.

FROM=test.fil; export FROM; echo $FROM

will print 'test.fil'

Maybe I have missed something.  

$ cat $NAME
cat: Wotan: No such file or directory
$ echo $NAME
Wotan

Which indicates to me that you can't cat a variable, but you can echo it.  

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