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Old 02-04-2005
Data Using grep with variables
Being new to shell scripting I hope this question isn't too elementary but here goes.

I run a grep statement - grep 'sqr' sqrmodule.par and the grep statement returns correctly the information that I'm looking for. Now I want to take the output from the grep statement and load it into a variable so I tried:

var1=| grep 'sqr' sqrmodule.par
echo $var1

The echo command shows that the variable does not contain the information from the grep command. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

thanks
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Old 02-04-2005
var1=`grep 'sqr' sqrmodule.par`
echo $var1
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Old 02-04-2005
Thanks! That worked like a charm!
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