UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Im reading an ANSI text file and greping for a pattern. Then i cut what i dont need from that pattern. So now i just have what i need. What i have now just so happens to be a constant integer. How can i save this integer in a varaible? Or do i use command capture in some form?

Code:

cat Hello.txt | egrep "That One Pattern" | awk '{print $NF}'

Also..This command might be really useful to me, i just dont understand it.
Since maybe i can use these varaibles with the one i would like to store above..

Code:

awk '{for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) s=s+$i}; END{print s}'

Code:

cat Hello.txt | egrep "That One Pattern" | awk '{print $NF}'

I have a value in that code. But i cant add it to anything. Awk has its own language so i cant change the NF variable to preform any arithmetic with other command lines...Not that i could of anyway. right?

So i used another method:

Code:

cat Hello.txt | egrep "That One Pattern" | cut -d':' -f2

That code has a value as well. How would i store it in a varaible??

Code:

Value=Hello.txt | egrep "That one Pattern" | cut -d':' -f2

har har har. But i really dont know.


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Dont undestand what you want...
Is it assign to a variable the result of one of your commands above?
in ksh you would do so like that:

Code:

VAL1=$(cat Hello.txt | egrep "That One Pattern" | awk '{print $NF}')
#to check
echo " VAL1 = " $VAL1