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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How do I assign the output of a command to a variable within a loop in bash? Post 303033921 by sankasu on Sunday 14th of April 2019 04:02:29 PM
Old 04-14-2019
How do I assign the output of a command to a variable within a loop in bash?
In the else of the main if condition .

Code:
else
       set lnk = $(readlink -f <path> | cut -d '/' -f7)
        echo "$lnk" 
        if [[ "$lnk" == "$ver" ]]

When I run the above on command line , the execution seems to be fine and I get the desired output. But when I try to assign it to a variable within a loop , it doesnt get assigned.Hence the "if condition" after the variable assignment doesnt get evaluated.

Os Version : RHEL 6.0
Last edited by sankasu; 04-14-2019 at 05:11 PM.. Reason: An additional bracket made it to the code..removed the same
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

PARAMETERS

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DESCRIPTION

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       imply anything about the value of this predicate, the predicate should always be re-evaluated.

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RETURN VALUE

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