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Old 08-31-2011
Pipe to awk to variable
Hi!

If I'm trying something like:
Code:
echo "hello world" | myvar=`awk -F "world" '{print $1}'`
echo $myvar

myvar is always empty Smilie

I googled for houres now and don't understand why it isn't working...
Trying it in normal bash.

Can someone explain it to me so I can say "Of course! Stupid me..." ? Smilie

Thanks!
Last edited by al0x; 08-31-2011 at 11:18 AM..
# 2  
Old 08-31-2011
I don't understand what you are trying to achieve with that command ...
# 3  
Old 08-31-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
I don't understand what you are trying to achieve with that command ...
Getting "hello" into myvar

Code:
myvar="hello"
echo $myvar

would give me the result I want to achieve

Edit:
Code:
echo "hello world" | awk -F "world" '{print $1}'

Would give me "hello", I just want to put that into my variable
# 4  
Old 08-31-2011
I'm still not sure, but it seems that you want to write something like this:

Code:
myvar=`echo "hello world" | awk -F "world" '{print $1}'`

I'm sure you'll get a better solution if you post more details ...
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# 5  
Old 08-31-2011
That's exactly what I wanted^^

I knew it would be simple Smilie

Thanks!
# 6  
Old 08-31-2011
In some shells:

Code:
read VAR G <<<"hello world"

puts the variable into VAR without needing to call awk at all, which makes it hundreds of times faster.
# 7  
Old 08-31-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
In some shells:

Code:
read VAR G <<<"hello world"

puts the variable into VAR without needing to call awk at all, which makes it hundreds of times faster.
But I need awk to cut the string (since cut can only handle 1 char)
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