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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:55:00+00:00

I have grep 5980 list.txt > temp; awk ‘{ print $4}’ temp but instead

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I have

grep 5980 list.txt > temp; awk '{ print $4}' temp

but instead of just printing the results I would like to set it to an environment variable.

I’m kind of new to bash and awk so an explanation would also be much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use command substitution

    export variable=$(grep 5980 list.txt > temp; awk '{ print $4}' temp)
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