put output into a variable [duplicate]

Question

The following works if I type it in a shell window. But how do I get the result into a variable?

date -j -v+1m -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s"

jaypal singh · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-19 19:54:42Z

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You can use command substitution $(..) and capture the output in a variable

var=$(date -j -v+1m -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s")
echo $var

answered Jan 19, 2012 at 19:54

jaypal singh

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