Ubuntu :: Trying A Find And Increment Script - Bash?

I tried searching for this, but everything, for pages and pages, shows me the `if -e filename`. That's not what I'm looking for, at least I don't think I am. I am working on a script that will search a directory for certain file names and increment a variable by one for each result returned. Each time I search this file name, the file found will also be deleted. I would like this script to be run about every 6 hours or so. We'll call this script A.

I also have a script that runs daily that I would like to tack the count to the end of the text file that it outputs. We'll call this script B. I'm confident that I would want to store the count from script A to a text file to be called in by script B, but don't know how to do so. Here's what I have so far:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
SD=0#Resetting variable count for testing purposes, removed this before release #Below, Smith is used for testing purposes as this is the newest backup with instances found
find /cust_backups/Smith -name *Modified Script* && SD=$[SD+1] ;
find /cust_backups/Smith -name *Bitdefender Online Scanner* && SD=$[SD+1] ;
find /cust_backups/Smith -name *ccleaner.exe* && SD=$[SD+1] ;
find /cust_backups/Smith -name *HJT.exe* && SD=$[SD+1] ;

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Now, for those of you that know what you're doing, you're already shaking your head because you know that, no matter what, at the end of the script $SD will end up being 14. The problem is I don't know how to tell bash that if there is a result returned, increment by one. If there is no result returned, move to the next command. Beyond that, I'll need to know how to call the text of a file in to a variable so I can plug it in to the text output of script B.