Saving awk output to variable BASH

Question

I need to save an output of a command in a variable and then to use it. Currently.

newExtend= $(awk 'NR=='$cont $directy) 
echo $newExtend

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2268104/bash-script-variable-declaration-command-not-found — tripleee, Oct 03 '16 at 12:37

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '16 at 12:34

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Try:

newExtend = `awk 'NR==' $count $directory`

Those are backticks.

answered Oct 03 '16 at 12:34

AhmadWabbi

Those spaces around the equals sign are a syntax error, and the Awk command is no longer valid, either. – tripleee Oct 03 '16 at 12:36

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