[TriLUG] OT - script help

[Kevin Otte]

Howard Boyd II wrote:
> Outstanding! Thanks to all who replied on and off list! My problem was
> not including my kludgy awk/sed stuff in back tics :) Once I put the
> awk/sed in back tics I could assign to a variable for comparison
> purposes. Thanks again for all the help!!!

I've often heard that backticks are hard to see and can sometimes be
confused for single quotes.  The alternate syntax for this is a tad
easier to read:

varname=$(your kludgy awk/sed stuff here)

-- Kevin