Please excuse this... I'm VERY inexperienced with Unix.

I am trying to create a shell variable within a script that removes the
letter E from within another shell variable.

I can create the result by using
     echo $var | sed 's/E//'

however I can't assign this to my other variable.

This is probably very easy... but I'm stumped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please direct responses to v.cast...@cowan.edu.au

In article <31130AF4.5...@cowan.edu.au>,
Vaughan Castine  <v.cast...@cowan.edu.au> wrote:

In the Bourne shell, a string in backquotes evaluates to the output of
the command inside the string. So:

a=`ls`

...will put a list of file in a. (Returns are treated as white space.)
So, you want:

list=`echo $var | sed 's/E//'`

(Note the confused quotes!)

If you're using csh for your scripts, switch to the Bourne shell. NOW.
csh is awful for scripts.

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