Bug in wc???
Jos Vos
jos at xos.nl
Sun Jan 11 14:51:24 UTC 2004
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Hans M?ller wrote:
> Hello when i use the wc command i get many spaces.
> for example:
> [frank at homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$ ls|wc -l
> 6
> [frank at homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$
> but at all scipt saples the output are:
> [xxxx at xxx]$ ls|wc -l
> x
> [xxxx at xxx]$
> so i cannot use the output in a script. Who can help?
Then use
ls | wc -l | sed 's/^ *//'
to strip the spaces.
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