Assigning the output of a command to a variable, where there may be >1 line returned?
Hello
I am using unix CLI commands for the Synergy CM software. The command basically searches for a folder ID and returns the names of the projects the folder sits in. The result is assigned to a variable:
When the command only returns one line of output, there is no problem.
However, if the folder is contained in more than one project, the command will return more results, such as the following:
agriculture-stst
agriculture-uat
My question is, when assigning the output of a command to a variable, where there is more than one line returned by the command, what will be assigned to the variable?
- Will it pick up the first line only?
- Will it pick up the last line only?
- Or does it get confused and pick up nothing at all?
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