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Ilan.b
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You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Preferred: Surround the invocation in $()
  • Surround the invocation in back ticks

NOTE: back ticks are legacy, the latterformer method is preferred.

output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output"; output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output";

You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Preferred: Surround the invocation in $()
  • Surround the invocation in back ticks

NOTE: back ticks are legacy, the latter method is preferred.

output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output"; output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output";

You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Preferred: Surround the invocation in $()
  • Surround the invocation in back ticks

NOTE: back ticks are legacy, the former method is preferred.

output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output"; output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output";
Note that backticks are legacy, not preferred
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You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Preferred: Surround the invocation in back ticks$()
  • Surround the invocation in $()back ticks

NOTE: back ticks are legacy, the latter method is preferred.

output=`curloutput=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2`f2) echo "$output"; output=$(curloutput=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2)f2` echo "$output";

You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Surround the invocation in back ticks
  • Surround the invocation in $()
output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output"; output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output";

You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Preferred: Surround the invocation in $()
  • Surround the invocation in back ticks

NOTE: back ticks are legacy, the latter method is preferred.

output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output"; output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output";
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You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer You have two optionshere. Surrounding the invocation in back ticks or $(), like so):

output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo $output; output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2)
  • Surround the invocation in back ticks
  • Surround the invocation in $()
output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output"; output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output";

You have two options. Surrounding the invocation in back ticks or $(), like so:

output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo $output; output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2)

You have two options (see this StackOverflow answer here):

  • Surround the invocation in back ticks
  • Surround the invocation in $()
output=`curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2` echo "$output"; output=$(curl -I http://google.com | head -n 1| cut -d $' ' -f2) echo "$output";
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