grep -A 26 "some text" somefile.txt |
awk '/other text/ { gsub(/M/, " "); print $4 }' |
sort -n -r | uniq | head -1
will return the largest in a list pulled from a large text file, but how do I store the output as a variable?
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Use command substitution:
my_var=$(grep -A 26 "some text" somefile.txt |
awk '/other text/ { gsub(/M/, " "); print $4 }' |
sort -n -r | uniq | head -n1)
Also, for portability, I would suggest always using -n1 for the argument of head. I've come across a couple of incarnations of it where using -1 doesn't work.
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For unnested cases back quotes will work too:
variable=`grep -A 26 "some text" somefile.txt |
awk '/other text/ { gsub(/M/, " "); print $4 }' |
sort -nru | head -1`
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I'd suggest
variable_name=$(grep -A 26 "some text" somefile.txt |
awk '/other text/ { gsub(/M/, " "); print $4 }' |
sort -nru | head -1)
