Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: < Date: 23 Sep 90 20:40:09 GMT References: <12126@chaph.usc.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: IR Lines: 8 In article <12126@chaph.usc.edu> szeto@aludra.usc.edu (Johnny Szeto) writes: > ? set g=`sed 's/\(.*\)2/\1/'< ? $r[$b] > ? fg` The easiest solution (unfortunately) is `echo "$r[$b]" | sed`. ---Dan