Setting array equal to command response

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

normally when i type:
condor_q | tail -1
command line returns:
0 jobs; 0 idle, 0 running, 0 held

I want use the number in front of 'running' in a series of equality tests to submit more jobs when my queue gets low. Someone showed me how to do it a few days ago by setting an array equal to the command. I thought it was:

#!/bin/csh
#
set qu = ( condor_q | tail -1 )

But this is not working..... any ideas?

2

i think may be use
set qu=($(condor_q|tail -1))

i test the statement in bash:

$ ls
a.sh                    hsperfdata_root         https-admserv-9d93b4d6

$ arr=( $(ls))
$ echo ${#arr[@]}
3
$echo ${arr[0]}
a.sh
3

That one returns:

Illegal variable name.

4

Try this:

qu=`condor_q | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f 5`

or

qu=`condor_q | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}'`
5

they both work... thank you very much