Get wget output to a variable
The preferred way would be
result=$(wget -qO- http://example.com)
echo "$result"
(lowercase variable name, $()
instead of ``
and quoted expansion of the result variable).
For shell scripting with bash and/or POSIX sh, http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide is the guide to read. And there's a lot more useful resources on that wiki, and on http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/. I'm afraid most other resources on shell scripting are garbage, so it's best to stick with those two.
How about:
RESULT="`wget -qO- http://example.com`"
echo $RESULT
Edit: Yeah, that works.