a general question for bourne shell script

[Rudigef]

hello,

i have a very simple question:

can i put an output of a command in variables? (in bourne shell scripting)

if it could be, i would like to hear how.

thank you!

[HROAdmin26]

Google: bash scripting "command substitution"

Command Substitution is a very handy feature of the bash shell. It enables you to take the output of a command and treat it as though it was written on the command line. For example, if you want to set the variable X to the output of a command, the way you do this is via command substitution.

There are two means of command substitution: brace expansion and backtick expansion.

Brace expansion workls as follows: $(commands) expands to the output of commands This permits nesting, so commands can include brace expansions

Backtick expansion expands `commands` to the output of commands.