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Old 11-17-2008
pinkgladiator pinkgladiator is offline
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Strange! I used the following script to see how many lines of code I have, and it says 1, but I have two lines of code.

a=0
while read line
do a=$(($a+1));
echo $a;
done < "/home/.../emailFile.txt"
echo "Final line count is: $a";