On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 21:43 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, JW Simpson <john(_at_)swajime(_dot_)com>
wrote:
VAR1=`ls -l`
VAR2=`tail -1 <<< "$VAR1"`
That might work for versions of bash/ksh/zsh released in the last 3
years or so. If you happen to have something older, you need
Hmm ... my newbieness shows?
This doc is dated 2002 ->
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/man/man1/bash.1.html
I think though, now that you mention it, that it is standard practice to
set SHELL = /bin/sh ?
VAR2=`echo "$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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