Forum Post: RE: How do you set a SKILL variable value to a shell evaluation?

For other users....used in succession, the final ipcReadProcess(cid) returns a string looking something as described above. In my case : "sh: myword: command not found\n" Setting this to a SKILL variable and getting to the core of the shell evaluation looked like: ipcret=ipcReadProcess(cid) mySkillvar=buildstring(cddadr(readstring(ipcret))) such that... printf("%s" mySkillvar) ==> myword