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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Bash: Insert in a variable a file Post 303036161 by bakunin on Monday 17th of June 2019 10:05:45 AM
Old 06-17-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Francesco_IT
i have a file datafine.log in this file there is :
Code:
17/JUN/2019

i want to insert the value of datafine.log in a variable.
First, you should notice that funny things ca happen if the content of the file is more than the (probably expected) one line of text. Some caution is advised before you use data in this way therefore.

Aside from these considerations it is quite easy:

Code:
var=$( < /path/to/file )

$( .... ) is a subshell which runs the commands inside the brackets and puts it output on the line, similar to a variable expansion. The command < /path/to/file is a simple redirection which means the output is the content of the file.

I hope this helps.

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