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Character substitution
Name: marion Date: September 29, 2005 at 04:13:01 Pacific OS: AIX 5.2 CPU/Ram: don't know
Comment:
Hi all.
I have to put the full path of a file into its name. The problem is that unix won't accept the character "/" in the filename, so I have to substitute it with something else. How can I do it via scripting?
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