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Re: Scripting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Thu Oct 29 12:28:32 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:00:24 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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Linux User writes:
>
> How do I store a output to a variable,
>
> what I want to do is to get the output of
>
> $ grep alive /usr/local/bin/fpinger/rundata
>
> to a variable ($pingalive) so i can do
>
> $ mail -s $pingalive whoever@whereever.xyz
> (basically get the result of fping in the subject line)
Backticks are your friend here. In sh syntax:
pingalive=`grep alive /usr/local/bin/fpinger/rundata`
HTH,
Thomas
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