Very sweet that work perfect, thanks! <div>On 7/12/07, Todd Zullinger <<a href="mailto:tmz@pobox.com">tmz@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Matthew Benjamin wrote: > I have a command that I am trying to read a particular amount of > lines with > > wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}' > > when it givs the number of lines, I am trying to find out how to use > that number in an addition problem. Can someone help me with that? lines=$(wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}') res=$(($lines + 42)) That's bash specific, so depending on how portable you want the script to be, you'd need to do things slightly differently. There are a ton of ways you could do something like this. Some bash guides might be helpful: BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html"> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html</a> Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/</a> -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: <a href="http://www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp">www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp</a> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. -- Voltaire -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- mB.