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Old 05-17-2010
tab delimated
Hi,

when I run shell command it will return a tab delimated output from a file.
e.g.
system Apr16#abc

how can I capture this o/p in shell variables and can use it for further processing .

Thanks in advance.
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Old 05-17-2010
Code:
var=$( system Apr16#abc )

# 3  
Old 05-17-2010
Maybe
Code:
output=$(shell command)

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