Assign AWK result to variable [duplicate]

The following works correctly on bash:

 a=$(echo '111 222 33' | awk '{print $3;}' ) echo $a # result is "33"

Another option would be to convert the string to an array:

 a="111 222 333" b=($a) echo ${b[2]}  # returns 333

linux postgresql shell scripting awk

Or you can directly use:

${INDEXCOUNT##* }

linux postgresql shell scripting awk

This might be easier to use for testing with if statement/

INDEXCOUNT="111 222 333"echo $INDEXCOUNT | awk '{if ($3 == 333) print $3}';

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