<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, all. I have a quick shell scripting question that I thought would be easy to answer, but I haven't found anything yet.<div>I'm simply trying to substitute a shell variable into a dbsubset call. Something like:</div><div><br></div><div>#!/bin/sh</div><div><br></div><div>STATION="P21A"</div><div>dbsubset db.assoc 'sta == "$STATION" ' > out.view</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>...I've tried all sorts of escapes, but dbsubset will have none of them. Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><i>Jonathan MacCarthy</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><i>PhD Candidate in Seismology</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><i>New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology</i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><i>Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, MSEC208</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><i>801 Leroy Place</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><i>Socorro, NM 87801</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; "><i>ph: 505.835.5418</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><i>web: <a href="http://www.ees.nmt.edu/~jkmacc">www.ees.nmt.edu/~jkmacc</a></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>