Shell script

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	I have what I hope to be an easy question.  How do I make the
output of a command, it will be a number, assign to a variable.  I'm using
bash - I have been reading through several books on this and I'm starting
to get frusterated.

Thanks,
Anthony

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