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I have a string variable x=A_B_C_D in the script, what I want to do is to replace all the “_” with the space, after that, x=A B C D. My system only supports Bourne shell /bin/sh and Korn shell /bin/ksh (no bash). Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

Name: nails
Date: March 28, 2006 at 06:54:43 Pacific

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#!/bin/ksh x=A_B_C_D # replace _ with a space x=$(echo $x|sed 's/_/ /g') echo $x

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It works. Thank you very much.

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