Assigning a value to variable

sirtrancealot · #1 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006

Another newbie to Unix scripting Q..

How do you assign a value resulting from a command, such as awk, to a variable.

I am currently trying:-

$awk '{print $1}' file1 > variable1

with no change to $variable1.

The line:

$awk '{print $1}' file1

does print the first line of the file, so this is not an issue...

Cheers

tayyabq8 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006

In ksh:

Code:

var=`awk '{print $1}' yourfile`

{print $1} will print first column not the first record.

Regards,
Tayyab

sirtrancealot · #3 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006

Ah ok, my file only has one column per line in any case, so it is not an issue here.

sirtrancealot · #4 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006

Thanks shereenmotor, adding ` ` around the awk statement allows the variable to take the result value of that statement.

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