Re: Feature Request: scanf-like parsing

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 12:47:58AM +0700, pepa65 wrote:
> It is otherwise very hard to get command output into a variable without
> a subshell.

It's not hard at all.  People just have a deep, almost religious, loathing
against creating their own temp files.

And yet, these same people are *perfectly* happy if some tool creates
a temp file for them -- as long as they don't have to see any of the
details or do any of the work.