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Hi scampgb,<br />
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thanks much!<br />
<br />
Don
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Glad I could help. &nbsp;Good luck with the scripting :-)<br />

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Glad I could help.  Good luck with the scripting :-)


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Hello,<br />
<br />
This is probably a real no brainer for someone with experience in shell scripts but,<br />
<br />
I am new to Linux and scripting and was wondering if someone can explain to me what the following statements do?<br />
<br />
Specifically what is .$$<br />
$TMP.1<br />
<br />
If you could take it line by line that would be extremely helpful.<br />
<br />
<br />
TMP=/tmp/new_issue.$$<br />
TFILE1=$TMP.1<br />
TFILE2=$TMP.2<br />
echo &quot;RZ_ISSUE_NAME &nbsp; &nbsp; $*&quot; &gt;&nbsp;$TMP<br />
echo &quot;RZ_ISSUE_VER &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;$*&quot; &gt;&gt;&nbsp;$TMP<br />
cat $* &gt;&gt;&nbsp;$TMP<br />
rz_issue_summarize_file $TMP &gt;&nbsp;$TFILE1<br />
<br />
thanks in advance,<br />
<br />
Don<br />
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Hello,

This is probably a real no brainer for someone with experience in shell scripts but,

I am new to Linux and scripting and was wondering if someone can explain to me what the following statements do?

Specifically what is .$$
$TMP.1

If you could take it line by line that would be extremely helpful.


TMP=/tmp/new_issue.$$
TFILE1=$TMP.1
TFILE2=$TMP.2
echo "RZ_ISSUE_NAME     $*" > $TMP
echo "RZ_ISSUE_VER      $*" >> $TMP
cat $* >> $TMP
rz_issue_summarize_file $TMP > $TFILE1

thanks in advance,

Don



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