Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to copy script output and use it in this same script as a variable, and call the variable when script is compiled.
The script is below.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

output=$(script)

while read line; do
      if [[ $line =~ Failed ]];
      then
      grep "$line" logfile.txt
# Create text file
echo "From: IT 
Subject: Failure found
Body: $Output from this script goes here" >> myFile.txxt

fi
done  < logfile.txt >> myFile

If I use syntax OUTPUT=$(/usr/local/bin/script.sh) and run the script it hangs and does nothing.

We will assume that you understand that invoking script and invoking script.sh do not run the same code.

Most BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems have a utility named script installed. If you name your shell script script, whether you will invoke your shell script or the system's script utility will depend on which will be found first in the directories named by the PATH variable in your current shell execution environment.

If your script is named script and the directory containing your script is found in the PATH environment variable before the system's script utility, having the first thing that your code does be:

Code:

output=$(script)

creates a recursive sequence of invocations of your script until you exceed that number of processes you are allowed to have running with your user ID, the system runs out of available resources to create another copy of your process, or a system administrator kills your job when other users on your system complain that you are slowing down their jobs by unreasonably consuming all available system resources.

The script is actually named read7.sh. It's not named script. I just wanted to emphasize that I'm running a script to capture it's output. Thanks for the valuable information.

Why don't you show us your actual script so we can see what it is really doing? There are obvious inconsistencies and/or misspellings that we don't know if they are typos in the way you have tried to emphasize features in your script or actual errors in your script.

It would help if the target were known - what do you want to achieve? Your code with the while loop and the grep gives wide room for interpretation and guesses - it doesn't realy make sense to me.