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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting assigning a multiline grep output which has been piped through sed to a shell variabl Post 302302844 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 07:19:32 AM
Old 04-01-2009
Try this:

Code:
OUT=`awk '/test/{print $0 "\\\"}' /home/tim/input.txt`

echo "$OUT"

Regards
 

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