[nzlug] Variables??

[Richard Thomas]

Use backticks:

NEWVAR=`echo $R | cut -d ' ' -f 1 -`

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Nevyn wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I've been playing around with the possibility of running applications
> off my Linux server onto a Windows machine for various reasons.
> 
> Anyway, I've got an environment variable which has the following value in it:
> 192.168.0.247 4242 22
> 
> I want just the ip address so I did something along the lines of:
> echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -d ' ' -f 1 -
> 
> which displays just the ip address. Now I'm trying to figure out how
> to get this as an environment variable.
> 
> Thanks for the help in advance.
> 
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