Extracting variable value from file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All

i have created a file as below

cat > REJ_FILE_LIST.dat
CUST.DAT,$ABC/TEST.DAT|$ABC/TEST1.DAT|$ABC/TEST2.dat
Ctrl+d

in another script the variable is set as

ABC='/data/proj/Cust'

the requirement is to read the second column from file REJ_FILE_LIST.dat which contains list of files delimited by '|' whose path is parameterised with variable ABC which is set in the script and from withing the script and i need to find total number of records contained by the list of files.

in the script i have used

FileLst=`cut -d, -f2,2 TEST.dat |tr '|' ' '` ----> To read the col 2
TotRecCnt=`wc -l $FileLst|tail -1|tr -d ' '|sed 's/[a-z,A-Z]//g'` ---->to fetch the total record count of the file list

but the problem is the variable ABC is not being replaced by its value instead the whole of column 2 is being considered as string (along with $)

so TotRecCnt is parsed as

wc -l $ABC/TEST.DAT $ABC/TEST1.DAT $ABC/TEST2.dat

Please help

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# ABC='/data/proj/Cust'
# cat REJ_FILE_LIST.dat
CUST.DAT,$ABC/TEST.DAT|$ABC/TEST1.DAT|$ABC/TEST2.dat
# IFS="|" read a a b <REJ_FILE_LIST.dat
# echo $a
$ABC/TEST1.DAT
# eval echo $a
/data/proj/Cust/TEST1.DAT