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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Getting text into command line Post 302418529 by pseudocoder on Tuesday 4th of May 2010 02:21:19 PM
Old 05-04-2010
hiro,
what are the results of following two commands:
Code:
cat /home/hiro/Documents/ipaddress

Code:
awk '{print $1}' /home/hiro/Documents/ipaddress

The output should be the same, namely the ip address from the ipaddress file.
In this case you can assign this ip address to a variable called ip like this:
Code:
ip=$(awk '{print $1}' /home/hiro/Documents/ipaddress)

If you want to assign the ip address to a variable called ip:
Code:
ip="192.168.1.2"

This is how I tested that:
Code:
$ cat ipaddress
192.168.1.2
$ awk '{print $1}' ipaddress
192.168.1.2
$ ip=$(awk '{print $1}' ipaddress)
$ echo $ip
192.168.1.2
$ ip="10.14.7.1"
$ echo $ip
10.14.7.1
$

HTH
 

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fmt(1)								   User Commands							    fmt(1)

NAME

       fmt - simple text formatters

SYNOPSIS

       fmt [-cs] [-w width | -width] [inputfile]...

DESCRIPTION

       fmt  is a simple text formatter that fills and joins lines  to produce output lines of (up to) the number of characters specified in the -w
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       Blank lines are preserved in the output, as is the spacing between words. fmt does not fill nor split lines beginning with a `.' (dot), for
       compatibility with nroff(1). Nor does it fill or split a set of contiguous non-blank lines which is determined to be  a	mail  header,  the
       first line of which must begin with "From".

       Indentation is preserved in the output, and input lines with differing indentation are not joined (unless -c is used).

       fmt can also be used as an in-line text filter for vi(1). The  vi command:

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       reformats the text between the cursor location and the end of the paragraph.

OPTIONS

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			    each subsequent line with that of the second line. This is useful for tagged paragraphs.

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OPERANDS

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ATTRIBUTES

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SEE ALSO

       nroff(1), vi(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

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