Assigning Output from command to variable

[bigdog175]

This is the first time I have ever written a sh script in "sh" on a sco box. I am trying to assign the output of a command to a variable. The command I'm use to using (variable = $(command)) doesn't seem to work on SCO 5.0.4. Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[mrregan]

big,
put your command in single backquotes, example:
i=`who am i`
echo $i

Hope this helps