bourne shell and user variable initialization problem

[ddtxjobsearch03]

I try this in script and it did not work...

first did a read of file to initial $Line...
followed by the following user var init:

abc=$Line|cut -d~ -f2
echo $abc

The echo did not work/i.e. produced error.

however the following does produce expected result:

echo $Line|cut =d~ -f2

I think I am missing quotes around the assignment but not sure of exact syntax. Thanks in advance.

 

[Ygor]

Try

abc=`$Line|cut -d'~' -f2`

 

[grega]

Or abc=`echo $Line|cut -d'~' -f2`

Greg.