AWK - awk and assign output to a variable

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awk and assign output to a variable

rogv24@yahoo.com

2006-05-22, 6:57 pm

How would you assign the output to a variable:

awk '{print $1 }' file.one?

Bob Harris

2006-05-22, 6:57 pm

In article
<1148325766.546120.224450@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
rogv24@yahoo.com wrote:

> How would you assign the output to a variable:
>
> awk '{print $1 }' file.one?

Assuming ksh, bash, or POSIX Shell

variable=$(awk '{print $1}' file.one)

or

set -- $(awk '{print $1, $2, $3}' file.one)
var1=$1
var2=$2
var3=$3

csh, tcsh, bourne shell

variable=`awk '{print $1} file.one`
or
set -- `awk '{print $1, $2, $3}' file.one`
var1=$1
var2=$2
var3=$3

rogv24@yahoo.com

2006-05-23, 7:57 am

Thank you so much.

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