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Basically I want to be able to invoke a given command, in this case mysql -uanon -ppwd -db mydb -e "select count(*) from table1". And then take this commands result (the count on that table) and place it in a variable in bash script. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
You most likely want to use batch mode (-B) and disable column names (–disable-column-names) for non-interactive mysql output: