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Can we do grep and sed from a file and push the output into a variable

grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*" /tmp/disks.txt | sed '{'s/=.*//'}'

Output would be like this:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001f2af8cc054d33bb /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001ef50fcb0f778b86-part3 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001ef50fcb0f778b86-part2

Error:

[/~]# grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*" /tmp/disks.txt | sed {'s/=.*//'} >> $x -bash: $x: ambiguous redirect

Can we push all 3 lines into a variable and call them with foreach? Thanks!

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I have tested, and both the below work in bash shell:

x=`grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*" /tmp/disks.txt | sed {'s/=.*//'}` x=$(grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*" /tmp/disks.txt | sed {'s/=.*//'})

Notice first line is backticks, not single quotes.

The >> character in your question sends output to files, not variables.

To answer second part, yes, using output from above, a for loop works:

for line in $x do echo $line done
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  • Thanks very much for the response! I tried both methods. No go. Here is what I see : <br>[root@localhost ~]# x=$(grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-" /tmp/del.txt | sed {'s/=.//'}) <br/> [root@localhost ~]# $x -bash: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001f2af8cc054d33bb: Permission denied <br/> [root@localhost ~]# x=$(grep "^/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-*" /tmp/del.txt | sed {'s/=.*//'}) <br/> [root@localhost ~]# $x -bash: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001f2af8cc054d33bb: Permission denied Commented May 24, 2017 at 6:17
  • Sorry for the messy log snip. it is giving this error -- -bash: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001f2af8cc054d33bb: Permission denied or -bash: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3644a8420420897001f2af8cc054d33bb,1171becbace78: No such file or directory Commented May 24, 2017 at 6:24
  • @Jes it looks like you are trying to execute $x. Don't do that; it's data, not a command. If you want to see what $x contains, use echo "$x". Commented May 24, 2017 at 7:16

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