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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 303033973 by sankasu on Monday 15th of April 2019 12:35:53 PM
Old 04-15-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
By "within a loop" do you happen to mean "behind a pipe?" also known as "inside a subshell"? That will not work. Variables inside a subshell do not get communicated to outside the subshell.
In which case is there a possibility to evaluate the output of the command to another variable.
eg.

Code:
if ( $(readlink -f <path> | cut -d '/' -f7)" == "$ver"); then

Last edited by rbatte1; 04-16-2019 at 06:04 AM.. Reason: Changed ICODE tags to CODE tags
 

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