Automatically capture output of last command into a variable using Bash?

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I don’t know of any variable that does this automatically. To do something aside from just copy-pasting the result, you can re-run whatever you just did, eg

vim $(!!)

Where !! is history expansion meaning ‘the previous command’.

If you expect there to be a single filename with spaces or other characters in it that might prevent proper argument parsing, quote the result (vim "$(!!)"). Leaving it unquoted will allow multiple files to be opened at once as long as they don’t include spaces or other shell parsing tokens.

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