In bash I get the stdout of a subshell block and assign it to a varaiable like:
$ VAL="$(ls)"
How can this be done in tcsh?
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In bash I get the stdout of a subshell block and assign it to a varaiable like:
$ VAL="$(ls)"
How can this be done in tcsh?
Use backticks to get the output and use
setto assign it to a variableexamples:
to clear the variable use
unset valSee http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html for more examples and information on csh / tcsh