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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help need to find the length of a variable Post 302168333 by smr_rashmy on Monday 18th of February 2008 04:02:37 AM
Old 02-18-2008
yes, its working...
printf "$LINE" | wc -c
is there any size limit for this?

also pls look the following,

$ a="ttt fff"
$ echo "$a" | wc -c
8
$ echo -n "$a" | wc -c
11
$
 

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NAME
gchem3d - a small chemical viewer application SYNOPSIS
gchem3d [OPTION(S)...] [FILE...] DESCRIPTION
gchem3d is a small chemical viewer application, which can show several chemical file formats. OPTIONS
The following options are accepted: -b COLOR, --bgcolor=COLOR Use the given color as background color. COLOR can be one of "black" (default), "white", "#rrggbb" (don't forget to escape the "#" character in the shell). -d MODEL, --display3d=MODEL Choose how molecules are displayed. MODEL can be one of "BallnStick" (default), "SpaceFill". -?, --help Show application help options. --help-all, --help-* Print all or just a group of help options. These options are not documented here. Instead see gtk-options(7) and gnome-options(7). -v, --version Print gchem3d version information. SEE ALSO
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