On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, JW Simpson <john(_at_)swajime(_dot_)com> wrote:
VAR1=`ls -l`
VAR2=`tail -1 <<< "$VAR1"`
That might work for versions of bash/ksh/zsh released in the last 3
years or so. If you happen to have something older, you need
VAR2=`echo "$VAR1" | tail -1`
The double-quotes should assure that the newlines in the value of
$VAR1 are preserved (JW's answer relies upon that as well).
Oh, and make sure LINEBUF is set large enough to contain the entire
output of "ls -l" or you'll get very unexpected results.
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