Assign Output of Shell Command To Variable in Bash

var=$(command-name-here)
var=$(command-name-here arg1)
var=$(/path/to/command)
var=$(/path/to/command arg1 arg2)

OR use backticks based syntax as follows to assign output of a Linux command to a variable:

var=`command-name-here`
var=`command-name-here arg1`
var=`/path/to/command`
var=`/path/to/command arg1 arg2`

Examples

## store date command output to $now  ##
now=$(date)

## alternate syntax ##
now=`date`

To display back result (or output stored in a variable called $now) use the echo or printf command:

echo "$now"
printf "%s\n" "$now"

References
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-bsd-appleosx-bash-assign-variable-command-output/