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Storing output of command in shell variable

I have an operation using cut that I would like to assign result to a variable var4=ztemp.xml |cut -f1 -d '.' I get the error: ztemp.xml is not a command The value of var4 never gets ...
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Repeat a Unix command every x seconds forever

There's a builtin Unix command repeat whose first argument is the number of times to repeat a command, where the command (with any arguments) is specified by the remaining arguments to repeat. For ...
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How to pipe the list of commands displayed by of “tab complete”?

When using commands in bash I like the double tab option to display the available commands. Some commands have more possible matches than others: Is there a way I can pipe the output of the double ...