in reply to string in system command

What error are you getting?
It looks like there's only one argument to cp.
Have you tried this?

`cp "$DIR/$FILE" "$DIR2/$FILE"."_devl"`

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Re^2: string in system command
by kafkaf55 (Acolyte) on Oct 18, 2009 at 15:50 UTC
    Thanks gmargo! That works and I can use that, it is simple and proven. kafkaf55