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Thread: Enviroment setting

  1. #1
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    Enviroment setting

    I am trying to capture the Desktop ID from xwininfo using:
    User@name:~$ DESKTOPID="$ xwininfo -int -name Desktop | head -2 | awk '{print $4}'"
    User@name:~$

    I then try to see that DESKTOPID has something in it and get:
    User@name:~$ printenv DESKTOPID
    User@name:~$

    I also tried this:
    User@name:~$ echo $DESKTOPID

    User@name:~$

    Please help, what am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance.

    Operating System:
    Linux version 4.3.0-kali1-amd64 (gcc version 5.3.1 20160101 (Debian 5.3.1-5) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5kali4 (2016-01-13)

  2. #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Personal View Post
    I am trying to capture the Desktop ID from xwininfo using:
    User@name:~$ DESKTOPID="$ xwininfo -int -name Desktop | head -2 | awk '{print $4}'"
    User@name:~$

    I then try to see that DESKTOPID has something in it and get:
    User@name:~$ printenv DESKTOPID
    User@name:~$

    I also tried this:
    User@name:~$ echo $DESKTOPID

    User@name:~$

    Please help, what am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance.

    Operating System:
    Linux version 4.3.0-kali1-amd64 (gcc version 5.3.1 20160101 (Debian 5.3.1-5) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5kali4 (2016-01-13)
    Turns out it I should have used (parentheses) instead of "quotes" in line 2.

  3. #3
    According to bash syntax, it's: DESKTOPID=$(xwininfo -int -name Desktop | head -2 | awk '{print $4}')

  4. #4
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    Yes, I forgot I changed that also. Thank you for pointing that out.

  5. #5
    For the record you could put your piped commands between `` (in this case) instead of $()
    Code:
    DESKTOPID=`xwininfo -int -name Desktop | head -2 | awk '{print $4}'`
    Last edited by kcdtv; 2016-08-05 at 15:52.

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