count no of words in a line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hi
i have a string like
str=abc def ghi jkl

now i want to count the no of words in the string
please help

2

echo "abc def ghi jkl" | wc -w

Thanks
Penchal

3

Like this:
str="abc def ghi jkl"
echo $str|wc -w

4

satish,

I have question, are trying before posting?

5

hi elthox
it is working fine but i want to assign the count to a variable
i am doing

var= abc def ghi jkl mno | wc -w
echo "------------------->"$var

it is throwing an error please help

6 
var=$(echo "abc cb fg" | wc -w)
7

hi aju
i am trying and then only i am asking
i am a java resource, my project people gave me the sript to remove the queues from the cluster
so i am in hurry thats why i am asking

8

It is not a problem for us to answer your queries... what I mean is like this u will not learn