[oclug] Text processing

[Dave Lewis]

Thanks Everyone... got it working :)

Dave

At 10:28 AM 3/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Dave Lewis wrote:
> > gateway: 192.168.0.1
>...
> > ALSO, in unix is there anyway to incude a colon in a variable ?  when I
> > assign a variable to the string above
> > it seems to get lost at the :
>
>Putting a colon in a shell variable's value shouldn't require any
>special treatment.  Spaces do require quoting or otherwise escaping.
>Try this:
>
>         x='gateway: 192.168.0.1'
>
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