inserting program output into a variable

MrFixit · 03-13-2008, 06:05 PM

Hello,
I know that with C Shell i can do this:

set var1=`some_command with_arguments`
and get in var1 the output of that command with these arguments...

is there a way to achieve this in Dash and Bash?

unSpawn · 03-13-2008, 06:28 PM

Skip the "set " part?

MrFixit · 03-13-2008, 06:42 PM

heh, sorry...
I had to use `./executable_name arguments` instead of `executable_name arguments`

now its fine, silly me...

matthewg42 · 03-13-2008, 06:48 PM

You can use either of these:

Code:

variablename=`some command`
variablename=$(some command)