On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:18:54 -0500, Mike <techmike at gmail.com> wrote: > How would I store a programs output to a variable? > > I want to take the output of > > ps aux | wc -l > > and store it so I can do some math with it. > > var=`ps aux | wc -l` make sure there are no spaces between the "=" Chris Romano