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Old 11-02-2008
assign shell var output of cmd "wc"
how do I feed output of "wc" to a shell script variable "countBcp"?

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countBcp="expr ls -l -d ./speccialFiles* | wc -l" #
echo "# of bcpFiles folder: $countBcp" #
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Old 11-02-2008
variable=`commando`
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Old 11-02-2008
Don't use double codes(" "), use back quote(` `) to execute any..
Store that in a variable.

$ countBcp=`ls -l -d | wc -l`#
$ echo "# of bcpFiles folder: $countBcp" #
# of bcpFiles folder: 1 #
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