08-21-2014
Storing command output in a variable and using cut/awk
Hi,
My aim is to get the md5 hash of a file and store it in a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"
$var1
The above outputs fine but also contains the filename, so somthing like this 243ASsf25 file1
i just need to get the first part and put it into a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"
$var1 | awk '{print $1}'
This only prints the first part which is what i want but i dont know how to put it into a variable to use later on
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NAME
stapdyn - systemtap dyninst runtime
SYNOPSIS
stapdyn [ OPTIONS ] MODULE [ MODULE-OPTIONS ]
DESCRIPTION
The stapdyn program is the dyninst back-end of the Systemtap tool. It expects a shared library produced by the front-end stap tool, when
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Splitting the systemtap tool into a front-end and a back-end allows a user to compile a systemtap script on a development machine that has
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OPTIONS
The stapdyn program supports the following options. Any other option prints a list of supported options.
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-c CMD Command CMD will be run and the stapdyn program will exit when CMD does. The '_stp_target' variable will contain the pid for CMD.
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