This is strange...

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <1652 at ektools.UUCP> mcapron at ektools.UUCP (M. Capron) writes:
>CODE A: This works.
>incs=`egrep '^#[         ]*include[     ]*"' $i | awk '{printf "%s ", $2}'`
>incs=`echo "$incs" | sed 's/"//g'`
>
>CODE B: This does not work.
>incs=`egrep '^#[         ]*include[     ]*"' $i | awk '{printf "%s ", $2}' | sed 's/"//g'`
>
>With CODE B, $incs comes out to be nil.

echo outputs a newline after its arguments, while your awk program won't.
sed only processes lines that are properly newline-terminated.
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