On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:13:29 -0500, Bill Mar*** wrote:
> On 2008-01-04, loki harfagr <loki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well, the real answer depends much on the rest of what you
>> expect to do overall, but just supposing you really want to fill a
>> variable with previous problem description, it's possible to do for
>> instance:
>>
>> $ woooop=$(awk '$NF=="RUNNING"{print $1}' FS=- yourfile)
>>
>> or backticks instead of ba****sm:
>> $ woooop=`awk '$NF=="RUNNING"{print $1}' FS=- yourfile`
>>
> '$( )' isn't a ba****sm, it's a POSIXism.
Um, yes, thanks for the clarification, time after time I'm
having more dire and dire difficulties to separate all the
gardens in four different unjoint colours :~+
but you're most certainly right :-)


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