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Hi,

sorry for my late reply, it ended up working fine

newvar=$($var1 | awk '{print $1}')


Thankyou for your replies

hi,

the first one doesn't work , shows a syntax error on the last bracket.



I am doing this.

var1="md5sum file1"

newvar={$var1 | awk '{print $1}'}

$newvar

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...