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To: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Script: Variable substition within a variable? 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com> 
   of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:53:19." <F175g2UVe3lQN5vnoqt00000f22@hotmail.com> 
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:25:17 -0800
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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> filetwo:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> name="Aaron"
> fileone=`cat fileone`

Change that last line to:

  eval fileone=`cat fileone`

Hope this helps

Dima


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