Assign grep count to variable

Question

How to assign the result of

grep -c \"some text\" /tmp/somePath

into variable so I can echo it.

#!/bin/bash
some_var = grep -c         


        

Answer 1

To assign the output of a command, use var=$(cmd) (as shellcheck automatically tells you if you paste your script there).

#!/bin/bash
some_var=$(grep -c "some text" /tmp/somePath)
echo "var value is: ${some_var}"