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Old 07-05-2005
how to assign an output to a variable
Hi,

I am giving a grep command, and i am getting the output. i want to store it in a variable

for eg

a = grep '12345' /dir/1/2/log.txt ( the output is number)
b= grep 'basic' /dir/1/2/log1.txt (in this case the output is character)

so how to assign the output of grep to a variable

pls help
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Old 07-05-2005
Here it is.

Code:
a=`grep -o '12345' /dir/1/2/log.txt`

If there are more occurences then the last occurrence will be saved into the variable.

If you need just the first occurrence, use

Code:
a=`grep -m 1 -o '12345' /dir/1/2/log.txt`

Check out the man pages of grep for other options.

Vino
 
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