Hi,

I am creating a korn shell script and i'm trying to find out what the total number of rows are in a specific text file and i need to store that number in a variable withing the script.

i know wc -l gives you the number, but it also has some leading spaces and then writes out the file name as well. All i need is the actual number or rows.

Also, i believe awk has the ability to return this value, but not sure how to store the value in a variable.

thanks
scott