I'm trying to set a git hash value into an environment variable, i thought it would be as simple as doing this:
git log --oneline -1 | export GIT_HASH=$1
But the $1 doesn't contain anything. What am I doing wrong?
$1 is used to access the first argument in a script or a function. It is not used to access output from an earlier command in a pipeline.
You can use command substitution to get the output of the git command into an environment variable like this:
export GIT_HASH=`git log --oneline -1`
However...
This answer is specially in response to the question regarding the Bourne Shell and it is the most widely supported. Your shell (e.g. GNU Bash) will most likely support the $() syntax and so you should also consider Michael Rush's answer.
But some shells, like tcsh, do not support the $() syntax and so if you're writing a shell script to be as bulletproof as possible for the greatest number of systems then you should use the `` syntax despite the limitations.
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