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Why does this not work in ksh?
COUNT=`cat ${ALERT_LOG} | wc -l` #COUNT=100 echo ${COUNT} tail +${COUNT} ${ORACLE_ALERT} The error is... tail: cannot open input It works fine if I use COUNT=100. I can only presume that the tail command is interpretted as... tail +`cat ${ALERT_LOG} | wc -l` ${ALERT_LOG} although I have...- twilo202
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