puting the counted files using wc -l in variable

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Dear Gurus,

I have used the command line below to count the current files created this day :

ls -la *.xml | grep "$datenow" | wc -l

I have used "$datenow" variable for the current date but i have no idea how to put the counted files in a variable.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[Paul Eadington_1 · Accepted solution]

VARIABLE=`ls -la *.xml | grep "$datenow" | wc -l`

That should do the trick for you.

[Pando]

i have found the solution by puting it using the symbol ">" (writing standard output to file).