Thread: [Solved] Shell store or return output of a command in a variable

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Old 05-07-2009, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by chimu View Post
Hmm.. what about just saving stderr and ignoring output (stdout)? I'm not interested in output but just wanted error messages.
Try to get both stdout and stderr:
Code:
 var=$(cmd1 2>&1)
Just get stderr but send stdout to /dev/null
Code:
var=$(cmd1 2>&1 >/dev/null)
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