Output of command used in the next command

Linux Programming & Scripting
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Hello everyone. Am new here have a multi-step question.

I am writing a script to work in ubuntu 12.04 linux that has a bunch of steps. Not a avid scripter, and this is probably (hopefully) easy for everyone else to understand.

I am building an installer that will.
Run another script, and wait for that to finish. This I know how to do.
Then rename a pair of files to blah.war.old
Then run one of the new files through a shasum/sha1sum and use that output to make a directory where then the .war file will get
placed in that newly created folder.

aka $shasum blah.war
$ dfjdkjfkdjfkdjfkdjfkdjfdkjfdkj
mkdir /blah/blah/blah/dfjdkjfkdjfkdjfdjfjfdkjf
mv blah.war /blah/blah/blah/kjfdjfkdjfkdjfdkjfdk

Then there is the trick that that same output from teh shasum will be used to update a database system properties but one step at a time I guess.

So I guess the question is what do I use in the shell script bash to get that output from one command to the next, and maybe to another command down the chain?

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Hi,

for now try if this is what you are looking for:

#/bin/bash

out=`shasum $1 | cut -d " " -f1`
mkdir -p /tmp/path/to/my/dir/$out
mv $1 /tmp/path/to/my/dir/$out

here is how it works:

 $ echo LinuxCareer.com > myfile
 $ ./test.sh myfile
 $ cat /tmp/path/to/my/dir/381ad8ef95d8eeaf2b9c1c4bc17d91a064972807/myfile 
LinuxCareer.com

Let me know if this is what you need…

Lubos