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Old 10-10-2008
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Remove the blanks surrounding the equal sign

Code:
$ status = `grep -i "YES I M HERE" /tmp/test.txt`
ksh: status: not found

$ status=`grep -i "YES I M HERE" /tmp/test.txt`

$ print "$status"
YES I M HERE