How 2 Redirect Outputs 2 a VARIABLE?

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August 25th, 2003, 06:58 AM

solit2de

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How 2 Redirect Outputs 2 a VARIABLE?

Hi!!
Alot of sites tells you how to redirect output of an command to a file but can anyone tell me how to redirect outputs to a shell variable?
eg. How can I store the result of "echo *" to a variable call "a".

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August 25th, 2003, 11:45 AM

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in bash you use backticks `` or $():

Code:

$DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo "Today is: $DATE"

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August 25th, 2003, 04:22 PM

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Much appreciated

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