help with sh script

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:14:05PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote:
> >many ways, here's one:
> >
> >printf '10.0.10.5' | sed 's/\.//g'
> >
> >Arno
> 
> *****************************************
> 
> Thanks but I need a little more help.
> 
> num_ip="(printf $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g')"
> 
> gives me a error.
> 
> What would the correct syntax be?

Use backtics:

num_ip=`echo $raw_ip | sed 's/\.//g'`

Note that when you do this, more that one IP address can end up as the
same num_ip, e.g. 11.0.1.50 and 1.10.1.50.

Roland
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