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jimd wrote:
>
> How can standard output be made into an environment varible?

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.  However,
to take the output of a process and put it into a
variable, you can use the back-quotes.  Like this:
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x=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`
echo $x
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If your output consists of many words, each word can 
be put into a separate variable like this:
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set -- `ls /`
echo $1
echo $2
echo $3
echo $4
echo $5
-------------

Is that the sort of thing you were looking for?

Cheers,
Steven