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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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