Parsing values from a file - string

[areza123]

I have a file with the format
(name of the file is old_ls_out )
14:00 config
18:01 abc
17:43 dsd
17:29 test134.txt

I want to initialize the file time and file name to 2 separate variables.In my shell script I use the code

LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_TIME = head -1 old_ls_out | nawk '{print $1}'
echo "Latest archived file time $LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_TIME "
LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_NAME = head -1 old_ls_out | nawk '{print $2}'
echo "Latest archived file name $LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_NAME "

I expect the output

Latest archived file time 14:00
Latest archived file name config

But instead what I get is

fm1[2]: LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_TIME: not found
Latest archived file time
fm1[4]: LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_NAME: not found
Latest archived file name

What is wrong with the code above ?

Cheers !

 

[dickiebird]

You've got spaces between the variables and the = signs.
You also need ` (back-ticks) for the commands :
LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_TIME=`head -1 old_ls_out | nawk '{print $1}'`
LATEST_ARCHIVED_FILE_NAME=`head -1 old_ls_out | nawk '{print $2}'`

HTH

Dickie Bird (-)))