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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:23:00 -0000
From: "Mathew Yeates" <mat.yeates@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: capturing command output to a variable
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I understand that turning on logging will allow me to save command
output to a file. But what if I want to save the output in a
convenience variable??

e.g. How can I do something like the following where I capture the out
of the "where" command.

set $x = `where 1`
echo $x

Mathew