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Old 04-17-2008
storing result of a command in variable

For whatever reason I cant seem to fix my syntax to do the following. I want to run a grep and count how many instances come up and store that number in a variable but I keep erroring out. Here's my code in bash:

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number=grep blah file.txt | wc -l

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Old 04-17-2008
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#!/bin/ksh
number=$(grep -c blah file.txt)

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