Pipe variable to CUT -- Resolved

[Jeff Boyce]

Thanks for everyone's input and suggestions.  For some reason CUT was not 
being cooperative, so I delved further into my reference manual to find 
another way to skin a cat.  The solution was ...gawk.  See the complete 
solution below.

Input Script
VALUE1=`arkc -drive -read -D name=BisonTape`
echo 'Value1 : '$VALUE1
VALUE2=`echo $VALUE1|gawk -F= '{ print $2 }'`
echo 'Value2 : '$VALUE2

Display Output
Value1 : tpname=Wednesdays
Value2 : Wednesdays



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Wooding" <timmywooding at yahoo.com>
To: "Jeff Boyce" <jboyce at meridianenv.com>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion 
list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Pipe variable to CUT


>
> --- Jeff Boyce <jboyce at meridianenv.com> wrote:
>> Greetings -
>>
>> I am having a problem using CUT to obtain a subset of text within a
>> variable
> ... [snip]
>
>> VALUE1=`arkc -drive -read -D name=BisonTape`
>> echo 'Value1 : '$VALUE1
>> VALUE2=$VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter=
>
>  VALUE2=`echo $VALUE1 | cut -f2 -d=`
>
>> echo 'Value2 : '$VALUE2
>
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