Unable to find simple answer

[lunarcloud]

I want to simply read the text from a one string text file, and set that string to a variable in my bash script.

/home/sam/variant = "kubuntu"
OS = text inside of /home/sam/variant

I've scowered the web and only found complicated things that aren't what I'm doing or simply don't work.

It can't be this hard to do.

[lunarcloud]

NEVERMIND!

I discovered that using $() around a command gives you the output of that command.

Sorry.

OS=$(cat /home/sam/variant)

worked beautifully.

Well, I'll leave this up in case others have this problem. I feel silly.

[lisati]

Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure it will help someone.