Hi,
I have a compiled c program that prints out a number. I want to write a bash script that collects that number into a variable (ok, it will be an array, in a loop, but that doesn't matter).
was the way I thought it could do it. But doesn't work.
Of course I can redirect the output to a file and then read from the file, but that's messy. That's what bash redirections are for, really.
I also can modify my program to make it return the value rather than print it, but I was hoping to do this in bash.
My searching for this has not come up trumps yet.
Cheers for advice.

When you're doing assignment in bash, no spaces around the '=' does the trick.
An exception to the usual rule of not doing that eg in if statements etc.

hi chrism01

Yaggg! You beat me to it, I had just done some more fiddling in vim, and by mistake, I didn't put a space and hey presto, syntax highlighting kicked in vim! So I came back here to retract it all!

Actually I've noticed this before in bash ... in the test statement [ has to have a space on either side, no?

These seem to be quite weird (and somewhat inconsistent) syntax convention. Bash has dark corners though, it's known ...

Thanks for the fast reply!