Assigning command output to variable gives strange results
15296
How can I assign the output of a command to a shell variable?
79345
Why does "cat {foo}" not output foo, but "cat {foo,bar}" does?
64218
Storing output of command in shell variable
78762
Set output of a command as a variable (with pipes)
136952
Assign command output to a variable and do if branch on the return value
35693
Why doesn't calling a Python string method do anything unless you assign its output?
119944
What's the difference between STDIN and arguments passed to command?
34216
Output of a python script running as unit is out of order while shells seems unnafected
13477
How is returning the output of a function different from printing it?
92727
How do I assign the output of a command into an array?
157434
How do I diff the outputs of two commands?
129292
Why doesn't text piped into an echo get outputted?
151142
How to change the output of a command if it has been called already?
7792
Unexpected output of xargs
24067
How to pass command output as multiple arguments to another command
25511
I get weird > symbols in my output — what does it mean?
750
Need help to interpret output of free command