Put the output of grep in a variable

big123456 · April 23, 2008, 10:35am

Hi,
in a shell script how can I put the result of a grep command in a variable :
myvariable=grep mystring myfilename

Thank you.

aju_kup · April 23, 2008, 10:38am

myvariable=$(grep mystring myfilename)

Dave_Miller · April 23, 2008, 10:55am

Hmmm...

I would have said:

myvariable=`grep mystring myfilename`

big123456 · April 23, 2008, 11:40am

Thanks to all.