Save output in variable? [duplicate]

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How would I go about saving an output in a vaiable. For example, if I enter:

ls -l

it will show the files. How would I go about saving the output in a variable? Is it possible at all?

Answer 1

You can do the following: var1=$(ls -l)

Answer 2

I know three ways to do:

1) Functions are suitable for such tasks:

func (){
ls -l
}

Invoke it by saying func

2) Also another suitable solution could be eval:

var="ls -l"
eval $var

3) The third one is using variables directly:

var=$(ls -l)
OR
var=`ls -l`

you can get output of third solution in good way:

echo "$var"

and also in nasty way:

echo $var