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Old 10-11-2008
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Originally Posted by nookie View Post
how would i go about storing this command in a variable

echo "$LINE" | awk -F"|" '{print $1"|"$2"|"$3"}'

i have tried FOO = ${command up there} but receive the error FOO: not found

aswell as a couple of other attempt but no luck

Code:
FOO=$(echo "$LINE" | awk -F"|" '{print $1"|"$2"|"$3"}')