How can I set a variable to be the output of cat command?

Question

I have a file named "myout" in my current directory. I wish to set the variable x to be the output of that line:

cat myout | cut -d" " -f1 | cut -d"/" -f1

I searched all over the site and couldn't find an answer, any help would be appreciated!

Red Cricket · Answer 1 · 2018-08-11T18:26:19.647

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x=$(cut -d" " -f1 ./myout |  cut -d "/" -f1)

Updated as per Cyrus's comment.

edited Aug 11 '18 at 18:26

answered Aug 11 '18 at 18:20

Red Cricket

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or `x=$(cut -d" " -f1 ./myout | cut -d "/" -f1)` – Cyrus Aug 11 '18 at 18:24
Yes even better to avoid the useless `cat ./myout`. – Red Cricket Aug 11 '18 at 18:25

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