Question

I want to find the path of folder and store it into a variable

 #!/bin/bash
 howdy=$(whereis yum.repos.d)
 howdy=$howdy"/remi.repo"
 echo $howdy

The issue is that when I want to use the variable $howdy , it will output

 yum.repos: /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

I want it to be just the path

 /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

so I could use it in my code

Answer 1

you can use awk to format the output:

howdy=$(whereis yum.repos.d| awk '{print $2}')

Full code:

#!/bin/bash
howdy=$(whereis yum.repos.d| awk '{print $2}')
howdy=$howdy"/remi.repo"
echo $howdy

this will output: /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo