How can I pipe grep
output as an argument to the cd
command?
For example:
[root@xxx xxx]# pip install django | grep '/usr.*'
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): django in /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
Here /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
is highlighted and I want to pass this string to cd
.
Best Answer
Use Bash's command substitution
$()
, you also need-o
with grep to only select the matched portion:Note that although you will get away in this case but you should always enclose the command substitution with double quotes so that the shell does not perform word splitting on whitespaces (by default space, tab and newline, depends on the
IFS
variable in case ofbash
).