Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am very new to the Linux
environment, and I am stuck with a situation. What I want to do
is to pass the command test -s $testFile to a variable, like,
say "tes"  tes="test -s $testFile" share|improve this question
add comment  2 Answers  up vote 6 down vote accepted  If the
command you're trying returns specific data, you could use:
test = "$(test -s $testFile)"  When you use $(), you're telling
the command line to execute the function passed in a subshell,
get the result and print back on the other terminal.
share|improve this answer add comment  Try this:  echo [string
you want to output]. echo [object that may or may not turn into
a string].  Careful with the '$', as noted above.  share|improve
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