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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

Okay so if I do a=$(perl randm 500)

and get 100 as the number.

then $a should equal 100 neh?

but grep doesnt recognize $a as meaning a, it simply tries to find end of line.

So how do I get greb to recognize a variable?