[HPADM] ksh, IFS, and backslash

From: Rick Greene (RGreene_at_rbinc.com)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:56:26 -0400
To: "Hpuxadmin (E-mail)" <hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl>

    Ok, I can't find anything in the archives, and things I've tried from "man ksh" hasn't helped.

    I have a string like this: outbox/08925485US00\200306131322.out.sent

    I'm trying to split it out so I get the part between the \ and the .out. I've tried:

    IFS=\\ ; set - $line ; unset IFS
    IFS="\" ; set - $line ; unset IFS
    IFS="\\" ; set - $line ; unset IFS

    $line contains the above string, what I want should be in $2, along with the .out.sent, which I can clean later. The second version didn't work at all, as I expected...it just quoted out the quote, throwing the script into conniptions.

    Any ideas?

    Rick Greene
    System & Database Administrator
    R&B Inc.
    3400 E Walnut Street
    Colmar PA 18915
    215-712-5171 

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