Re: Passing the results of GREP into a Bash Variable

[Robert A. Adkins II]

Okay,

     Would I write the script as thus?

    ps -e | GREPOUT=$(grep startx)

    I am assuming that this would make GREPOUT the variable name to use in the
if, then, else test.

    I will test the above to see if it works.

    Thanks for the help!
    Robert A. Adkins
    SeMI-LUG (at) bigfoot (dot) com


Chet Ramey wrote:

> >     I am working on a script that requires the result of a grep to be
> > piped or entered into a variable for an if, then, else check. Is that at
> > all possible?
>
> If you want the results that grep prints to the standard output, use
> command substitution:
>
> GREPOUT=$(grep ...)
>
> If you want the exit status of grep, use $?:
>
> grep ...
> GREPSTAT=$?
>
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>
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