in reply to Re: How to include a doublequoted string into a backticked expression?
in thread How to include a doublequoted string into a backticked expression?

I will second the "use perl, ditch egrep" suggestion. The code will save some forks/execs and will become portable between platforms.
[]s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)
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