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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: bash question
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Try:
> 
> string=$1

No. That would only be useful if I did:

scriptname inputofsomesort

which isn't happening. I'm piping a line of text into a bash script.

Regards,

d.

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