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Subject: Re: can I access output of locate?
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Edelwin Khaelos <edelwin@mailoo.org> wrote in news:55031519.9020906
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variables


# then to answer my own question
a=($(locate my.cnf))  # the outer () are important

echo ${a[1]}





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