Command output redirection in script not working

I need to count the number of lines in a .txt file and put it in a variable.

I am using the following code

#!/bin/bash

count = $(wc -l "some file.txt" | awk '{print$1}')
echo $count

It is giving the following error.

line3: count: command not found

What am I doing wrong here?

Spacing

#!/bin/bash  
count=$(wc -l "some file.txt" | cut -d\  -f1) 
echo $count

count=$(wc - l < file)

awk 'END { print NR }' file

As Skrynesaver said it is spacing:

count=$(wc -l < file)

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There are several methods of determining the number of lines in a file, another one for example:

sed -n $= file

But wc -l is by far the most efficient of the standard Unix utils ( see Alternative for wc -l: Comparison )

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@Skrynesaver, this does not work universally, since some wc's right-align the number:

$ wc -l infile |  cut -d\  -f1
$ wc -l infile                  
       4 infile
$ wc -l < infile
       4
$ wc -l infile | awk '{print $1}'
4

count=`cat some_file|wc -l`
echo $count

This is Useless Use of Cat.

Thanks for enlightening me about the spacing and other ways to count lines.