Script variable assignment issue

From: Drew (apt@dcs-success.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 08:56:59 EDT

Hi fello AIXers,
            I am writing a script that includes the line:

grep loss tempfile | cut –f7 –d” “

The above line returns returns a one or two digit number with a percent
sign. Usually it returns only: 0%

What I’m trying to do is, remove the % sign and initialize this value to a
variable, which I can then perform
basic functions on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was trying something like:
VALUE=[grep loss tempfile | cut –f7 –d” “]

but it isn’t working. I think I need to extract the 0 from the % and then
assign it a variable name. I’m just not sure

Thanks all,

Drew

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