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mcdef 06-10-2009 01:03 PM
How to get variable from text file into Bash variable
 
i have a text file i that has a mailTo: NAME in it. In a bash script i need to extract NAME and put it in a $variable to use. How do i do this?

harsshal 06-10-2009 01:13 PM
Code:
variable=`grep mailTo | cut -d ":" -f 2`
echo $variable

ramram29 06-10-2009 01:15 PM
#!/bin/sh

. mailTofile.txt

echo $variable


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