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Redirect Output In Variable

how make assign the output of the command (for example: grep "file" "string" ) in a variable ($name)?

i thing how put the result of the command (grep , cut, find ecc) in a variable..

IT's Possible ??

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Use backquotes `` to assign output of a command to a var, like this:

Code:

$ a=`grep "WINDOWS" str2`
$ echo $a
test line WINDOWS test line

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