How i can put the result of a command inside a bash variable?


 
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Old 02-13-2012
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Old 02-13-2012
Fix even for that command:
Code:
categories=$(grep ^Categories= /usr/share/applications/$i | sed 's/;/=/g' | cut -d = -f2)

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