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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Command output to a variable. Post 59232 by videsh77 on Tuesday 14th of December 2004 09:41:07 AM
Old 12-14-2004
Question Command output to a variable.
With cut -c 8-13 myfile,

I am getting some numeric value.
In my shell script I am trying to assign something like this,
var=cut -c 8-13 myfile
But at the time of execution I am getting -c is not found.
If I dont assign, then script executes well.

Can we not simply use the value from one command output into the
variable in shell script?
 

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