UNIX case study - 6

Hi all,
I have a problem here. I have a file and let we take the content of the file is just '32' (only a numeric value in that file). Now I need to assign this numeric value ( value in that file) to a variable. Is that possible? If so, can you plz advice me on this?

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read variable_name < file_name

variable_name=$(

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