Thanks guys.  That worked.  I must have done something syntactly wrong because I tried a number of variations on that theme which did not work.<br><br>Also, thanks to Hans as I did not know about the -c option for grep.<br>
<br>The last option Hans provided does not give the desired because /proc/mounts apparently includes contents from any autofs map files:<br><br>larry@fogtest:~$ grep tftpboot /proc/mounts<br>/etc/auto.fedora /tftpboot/iso/fedora autofs rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=1673,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0<br>
/etc/auto.puppy /tftpboot/iso/puppy autofs rw,relatime,fd=14,pgrp=1673,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0<br>/etc/auto.ubuntu /tftpboot/iso/ubuntu autofs rw,relatime,fd=20,pgrp=1673,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0<br>
/etc/auto.mint /tftpboot/iso/mint autofs rw,relatime,fd=26,pgrp=1673,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0<br>/etc/auto.zorin /tftpboot/iso/zorin autofs rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1673,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect 0 0<br>
/dev/loop0 /tftpboot/iso/mint/mint11DL32 iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0<br>/dev/loop2 /tftpboot/iso/mint/mint10DL32 iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:23 PM, der.hans <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:PLUGd@lufthans.com">PLUGd@lufthans.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Am 25. May, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
In a bash script, how can I set the contents of a variable to the result of:<br>
<br>
mount | grep tftpboot | wc | cut -c 5-8<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
As Kevin already pointed out, use command substitution.<br>
<br>
numlines=$( mount | grep tftpboot | wc | cut -c 5-8 )<br>
<br>
In this particular case, you can shorten the pipeline.<br>
<br>
numlines=$( mount | grep -c tftpboot )<br>
<br>
You might even be able to just get the data directly from proc.<br>
<br>
numlines=$( grep -c tftpboot /proc/mounts )<br>
<br>
ciao,<br>
<br>
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