Pipe variable to CUT

[Jeff Boyce]

Greetings -

I am having a problem using CUT to obtain a subset of text within a variable 
in a simple shell script.  The purpose of the shell script is to obtain the 
current name of the tape in my tape drive so that I can determine if it the 
appropriate tape to recycle.  The first line of the script reads the name 
currently assigned to the tape.  The output of VALUE2 below should produce 
the text *Wednesdays*, instead it is producing nothing.  If I manually 
enter..... tpname=Wednesdays|cut -f2 --delimiter=..... I get the output.... 
Wednesdays.  But when running the script below I get nothing. 
 $VALUE1|cut -f2 -d= produces the same result.  What am I missing, possibly 
some simple escape or quote?

Input Script
VALUE1=`arkc -drive -read -D name=BisonTape`
echo 'Value1 : '$VALUE1
VALUE2=$VALUE1|cut -f2 --delimiter=
echo 'Value2 : '$VALUE2

Display Output
Value1 : tpname=Wednesdays
Value2 :


Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com