Assign grep count to variable

Found the issue
Its the assignment, this will work:

some_var=$(command)

While this won't work:

some_var = $(command)

Thank you for your help! I will accept first helpful answer.

To assign the output of a command, use var=$(cmd) (as shellcheck automatically tells you if you paste your script there).

#!/bin/bash
some_var=$(grep -c "some text" /tmp/somePath)
echo "var value is: ${some_var}"